A Prophecy of Esau and Jacob

The length of the house of Judah’s captivity of in Babylon was directly related from the length of time they neglected to observe the land Sabbath according to II Chronicles 36:19-21:

And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all the palaces thereof with fire and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. ²⁰ And those who had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,

²¹ to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths; for as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years, II Chronicles 36:19-21, ‘by the mouth or spoken by Jeremiah’ this is a reference to the seventy years of captivity as spelt out in Jeremiah 25:11.

From the above, it could be established that the length of captivity has something to do with Israel’s neglect in their observance of the Sabbath, and in this case the observance of the land Sabbath. And this could explain why Israel and Judah will go into captivity again.

For more, see Ezekiel 4 – 390/40 Years Timeline

Leviticus 24

¹ And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,

² “Command the children of Israel that they bring unto thee pure olive oil, beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. — the oil for the lamps of the tabernacle and the meal for the showbread were to be offerings; and the lamps to burn continually.

³ Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.

— shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning, before the Lord continually; that is, the lamp or lamps, or candlestick, in which they were;

— or the light of them; his business was, and so every priest’s that succeeded him, to supply the lamps with oil, to dress, him, and snuff them, that they might burn clear, and burn always, and that before the Lord, in the presence of the Lord.

⁴ He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the Lord continually. — the pure candlestick; because of its resplendent brightness, or because it was of pure gold; before the Lord; because it was before the veil into the ark and mercy-seat, where God was peculiarly present;

— Aaron must always keep the lamps burning on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord? As Aaron was only allowed to be in the Holy of Holies only once a year, he has the candlestick just outside the Veil, in the Holy Place, but not inside the Holy of Holies.

⁵ “And thou shalt take fine flour and bake twelve cakes thereof, twotenths part shall be in one cake.

⁶ And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord.

⁷ And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

⁸ Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

— every Sabbath a fresh supply was furnished; hot loaves were placed on the altar instead of the stale ones, which, having lain a week, were removed, and eaten only by the priests.

⁹ And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place, for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute.”

— they shall eat it in the holy place; of the many things connected with the national service which became a perquisite of the priests: they had to be consumed within the precincts of the sanctuary.

¹⁰ And the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

— the Targum of Jonathan enhances with more details, saying

“A wicked man, a rebel against the God of heaven, went out from Egypt—the son of the Egyptian man who had killed an Israelite man in Egypt and had gone in unto his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son in the midst of the children of Israel.

“And when Israel were dwelling in the wilderness, he desired to pitch his tent in the midst of the tribe of the children of Dan, but they would not allow him; because by the standards of Israel, a man dwells by his own standard with the signs according to the genealogy of their fathers.

“And they quarreled together in the camp, and they went to the house of judgment: the son of the Israelite woman, and the man, a son of Israel, who was from the tribe of Dan.”

¹¹ And the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses (his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan);

— out of Egypt, being one of that mixed multitude which came out with the Israelites, Exodus 12:38. It is probable this was done when the Israelites were near Sinai;

— and they brought him unto Moses; having heard his blasphemy, to charge him with it before him, or in order to have due punishment inflicted on him;

¹² and they put him under guard, that the mind of the Lord might be shown them. — that the mind of the Lord might be shewed them; that is, that he might direct them according to the command of the Lord;

—the Targum of Jonathan says

“This is one of the four judgments which came up before Moses the prophet, and he judged them according to the mouth of the Word from on high.

“Some of them were monetary judgments, and some of them were capital judgments. In monetary judgments Moses was swift, but in capital judgments he was deliberate.

“And in these, Moses said, ‘I have not heard,’ for the purpose of teaching the heads of the Sanhedrins of Israel who are destined to arise after him, that they should be swift in monetary judgments and deliberate in capital judgments, and that they should not be ashamed to ask concerning a judgment which is difficult for them.

“For if Moses, the master of Israel, found it necessary to say, ‘I have not heard’—because of this, they shut him [the blasphemer] up in the guardhouse until the time that it should be made clear to them by the decree of the Word of the Lord.”

¹³ And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,

¹⁴ “Bring forth him that hath cursed outside the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

— let all the congregation stone him; the witnesses, who are the representatives of the people, cast the first stone, and then all the people who stood by covered the convict with stones.

¹⁵ And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. — this offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother.

¹⁶ And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him. As well the stranger as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.

— and all the congregation shall certainly stone him; shall have no pity on him, nor spare him, but stone him till he dies.

¹⁷ And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death. — the Targum of Jonahan says he shall verily be put to death by the sword.

¹⁸ And he that killeth a beast shall make it good, beast for beast. — beast for beast; or “soul for soul”; life for life, that is, a living one for that the life of which is taken away, and one every way as good as that.

¹⁹ And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor, as he hath done, so shall it be done to him— — as he hath done, so shall it be done unto him;

²⁰ breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

²¹ And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it; and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

— and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death; or he that smites a man, though he does not kill him, as only makes a wound or bruise in him, because it is not said, the soul of a man, as before; but such damages did not require death, but satisfaction in another way.

²² Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger as for one of your own country; for I am the Lord your God.’” — as well for the stranger as for one of your own country; the above laws were binding upon proselytes as well as Israelites.

²³ And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.

— and the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses; they took the blasphemer, and led him out of the camp, put their hands on him, and stoned him with stones till he died.

Leviticus 25

¹ And the Lord spoke unto Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,

² “Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them: ‘When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.

— Sabbath of the Seventh Year; the land not to be tilled, but rest the seventh year; and that which grew of itself in the field or vineyard to be meat for them and their cattle, Leviticus 25:1-7. The jubilee on the day of atonement; a year of liberty and restoration; a year of rest to the land.

³ Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard and gather in the fruit thereof, — the land shall keep a sabbath; that is, enjoy rest from ploughing and tilling; unto the Lord; in obedience and unto the honour of God;

— this was instituted, for the assertion of God’s sovereign right to the land, in which the Israelites were but only tenants at God’s will;

⁴ but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord; thou shalt neither sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard. — a Sabbath of rest; the express prohibition of sowing and reaping, and of pruning and gathering.

⁵ That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed; for it is a year of rest unto the land.

— that which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap; that which sprung up of itself from grains of corn, shed in the harvest of the preceding year, without any ploughing or sowing;

— he might reap it, but not as at other times, the whole of it, and gather it as his own property, but only somewhat of it in common with others for his, present use.

⁶ And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you: for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger who sojourneth with thee;

— for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid; the owner of the fields and vineyards, he and his family, wife, children, and servants, might eat of the fruits of them in common with others;

— for whereas it is elsewhere said, Exodus 23:11, “that the poor of thy people may eat;” but this is observed here, lest anyone should think the rich are forbid eating them;

— Rashi:

And [the produce of] the Sabbath of the land, shall be [yours to eat]: Although I have prohibited the produce [of the Shemittah year] to you, I did not prohibit you to eat it or to derive benefit from it, only that you should not treat it as if you were its owner. Rather, everyone is deemed equal [regarding the use of the Shemittah year’s produce]-you, [your slaves,] and your hired worker and resident.

⁷ and for thy cattle and for the beasts that are in thy land shall all the increase thereof be meat. — and for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land; the former signifies tame cattle, such as were kept at home, or in fields, or were used in service, and the latter the wild beasts of the field.

⁸ “‘And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

— and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be forty and nine years; just such a space of years there was between each jubilee, which, as afterwards said, was the fiftieth year.

⁹ Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. — in the day of Atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land;

— which day of atonement was on the tenth day of the month, and a very proper time it was to sound the trumpet, that after they had been afflicting themselves, then to have joy and comfort; and when atonement was made for all their sins, then to hear the joyful sound.

¹⁰ And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. It shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

— ye shall hallow the fiftieth year; much difference of opinion exists as to whether the jubilee was observed on the forty-ninth, or in round numbers, it is called the fiftieth. The prevailing opinion, both in ancient and modern times, has been in favor of the latter;

— it is expressly called the fiftieth year here, and Leviticus 25:11, that fiftieth year, which was not true if it is but the nine and fortieth year.

¹¹ A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

— two years would come together in which were no sowing reaping; but that God, that could cause the earth to forth fruit for three years, Leviticus 25:21; could make it bring forth enough for four years;

¹² For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. — ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field; that is, ye shall eat its produce from the field;

— because it is the jubilee, which must be observed as a sacred institution, the spontaneous produce of this year is not to be stored, but as much of it must each time be taken direct from the field as is wanted for daily consumption.

¹³ “‘In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. — ye shall return every man unto his possession; in the year of jubile every man is to be restored to his landed property, whether he had disposed of it by sale or by gift.

¹⁴ And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor or buyest aught of thy neighbor’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another. — ye shall not oppress one another; or, ye shall not overreach any man his brother;

— not only does the Law provide against the poor man losing his land for ever, but enjoins that in the temporary sales the buyer and seller are not to take undue advantage of each other’s circumstances.

¹⁵ According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy from thy neighbor, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee.

— the promised land, was to be divided by lot among the Israelites; the plot which should thus come into the possession of each family is to be absolutely inalienable, and for ever continue to be the property of the descendants of the original possessor;

— hence it is here enacted that where a proprietor being pressed by poverty is compelled to sell a field, it could not be bought of him for a longer period than up to the time of the next jubile, when it reverted to the original possessor, or to his family.

¹⁶ According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

— the price thereof; more was to be asked and required, and should be given for an estate, when, for instance, there were thirty years after the last jubilee, then what was left would be twenty.

¹⁷ Ye shall not therefore oppress one another, but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am the Lord your God. — that is; ye shall not overreach any man his neighbour; for I am the Lord your God; omniscient and omnipotent and able to punish, which of them either should oppress or defraud;

— from MSG

“If you sell or buy property from one of your countrymen, don’t cheat him. Calculate the purchase price on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee.

“He is obliged to set the sale price on the basis of the number of harvests remaining until the next Jubilee. The more years left, the more money; you can raise the price. But the fewer years left, the less money; decrease the price.

“What you are buying and selling in fact is the number of crops you’re going to harvest. Don’t cheat each other. Fear your God. I am God, your God.” (Leviticus 25:14-17 MSG)

¹⁸ “‘Therefore ye shall do My statutes, and keep My judgments and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

— wherefore ye shall do my statutes; and ye shall do; that is, the above named statutes and ordinances respecting the sabbatical year and the jubile, which required great care in implementing them.

¹⁹ And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill and dwell therein in safety. — and dwell therein in safety; not fearing enemies, nor being disturbed by them, nor carried captive; but they failed, and the Babylonians came and took them into captivity.

²⁰ And if ye shall say, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow nor gather in our increase.” — such as are of little faith, disbelieve the promise, and distrust the providence of God, and take thought for tomorrow.

²¹ Then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. — for three years; not completely, but in great part, for that part of the sixth year which was between the beginning of harvest and the beginning of the seventh year; including the year of jubilee.

²² And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store. — until her fruits come in; that is, until its produce come in, that is, the produce of the eighth year which was gathered in the ninth.

²³ The land shall not be sold for ever, for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with Me. — for the land is mine; as indeed the whole earth is,

— but the land of Canaan was peculiarly his, which he had chosen above all other lands for the inheritance of his people; out of which he drove the old inhabitants of it for their sins, and put in his own people to possess it under him;

— for the land is mine; the reason for this prohibition absolutely to cut off the patrimony from the family, is that God claims to be the supreme owner of the land; a special sense of the territory which God gave by promise and miracle, which was kept by obedience, and lost by rebellion.

²⁴ And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. — ye shall grant a redemption for the land; that is, whenever any estate in it was sold through necessity, the buyer was obliged to grant a liberty to the seller to redeem it.

²⁵ “‘If thy brother waxeth poor and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

— and if any of his kin come to redeem it; come to the buyer and propose to redeem it, by giving what it was sold for, or in proportion to the time he had enjoyed it: then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

²⁶ And if the man have none to redeem it, and he himself is able to redeem it, — and if the man have none to redeem it; in case, however, he has either no nearest of kin, or if his nearest of kin is himself too poor to perform this duty,

²⁷ then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it, that he may return unto his possession. — that is, a proportion of the original price obtained, corresponding to the number of years which were still to intervene between the redemption and the next Jubile year.

²⁸ But if he is not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

— not able to restore it to him; that is, if the vendor is unable to return to the purchaser the probable value of the crops between the contemplated redemption and the next jubile year;

— from MSG

“If one of your brothers becomes poor and has to sell any of his land, his nearest relative is to come and buy back what his brother sold.

“If a man has no one to redeem it but he later prospers and earns enough for its redemption, he is to calculate the value since he sold it and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it; he can then go back to his own land.

“If he doesn’t get together enough money to repay him, what he sold remains in the possession of the buyer until the year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it will be returned and he can go back and live on his land.” (Leviticus 25:25-28)

²⁹ “‘And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.

— a dwelling house in a walled city; it is, these are not the creation of God (Leviticus 25:23), allotted by His command to the different tribes of Israel; they are the work of man, who build them up and raze them to the ground at their own will.

³⁰ And if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the jubilee. — if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year; that is, either by the vendor or his son.

³¹ But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

— but the houses of the villages which have no wall; houses in villages, however, form an exception: they are part of the landed property, and hence, like the cultivated land on which they are erected, are subject to the law of jubile.

³² Notwithstanding, the cities of the Levites and the houses of the cities of their possession may the Levites redeem at any time. — and as to the cities of the Levites, their houses,

— that is, the houses in the forty-eight cities given to them (Numbers 35:1-8; Joshua 21:1-3), are to be exempt from this general law of house property.

³³ And if a man purchase from the Levites, then the house that was sold and the city of his possession shall go out in the Year of Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

— then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall go out, that is, in the year of jubile the house is to revert to the vendor just as if it were landed property.

³⁴ But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession. — the Levitical cities had both suburbs or commons for their cattle, steep and fields which they cultivated; and it is their perpetual possession;

— frpm MSG

“As to the Levitical cities, houses in the cities owned by the Levites are always subject to redemption. Levitical property is always redeemable if it is sold in a town that they hold and reverts to them in the Jubilee,

“because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the People of Israel. The pastures belonging to their cities may not be sold; they are their permanent possession” (Leviticus 25:32-34)

³⁵ “‘And if thy brother be waxed poor and hath fallen into ruin with thee, then thou shalt relieve him, yea, though he be a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with thee.

— that is, he is not to be treated like an outcast because he has been compelled by poverty to sell his patrimony, but is to receive the same consideration which strangers and sojourners receive, who, like the unfortunate Israelite, have no landed property.

³⁶ Take thou no interest from him or increase; but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee. — if he borrowed money, they were not to demand interest; or if food, they were not to demand any addition, any larger quantity, when it was returned.

³⁷ Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. — no interest was to be permitted in such a case for money lent, nor, if the loan took the form of the necessaries of life, was more than the amount lent to be exacted in return.

³⁸ I am the Lord your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

— I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt where they had been strangers and sojourners, and therefore should be kind to such in necessitous circumstances,

— and relieve them, and especially their brethren; and where God had given them favour in the eyes of the Egyptians.

³⁹ “‘And if thy brother who dwelleth by thee be waxed poor and is sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant; — thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant;

— under these circumstances he is not to be treated like heathen slaves who are either purchased or captured, and made to do the menial service which these Gentile slaves have to perform;

⁴⁰ but as a hired servant and as a sojourner he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the Year of Jubilee. — but as an hired servant who is hired by the day, or month, or year; and, when his time is up, receives his wages and goes where he pleases.

⁴¹ And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

— and shall return unto his own family; his father’s family, and that of his near relations, having been out of it during his time of servitude, and which the year of jubilee restored him to.

⁴² For they are My servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen. — for they are my servants; this is a clue to the whole system of Hebrew servitude. These poverty-stricken men, who are driven to sell themselves to their fellow-Israelites, God claims as His servants.

⁴³ Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God. — thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; the master is forbidden to tyrannise over him as if he were a slave without any rights.

⁴⁴ Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids, whom thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen who are round about you. From them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

⁴⁵ Moreover of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, from them shall ye buy and from their families who are with you, whom they begot in your land; and they shall be your possession.

⁴⁶ And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession. They shall be your bondmen for ever. But over your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.

— and ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children; that is, they may appropriate them to themselves, as their personal property, which is transmissible as inheritance to posterity with the family land;

— from MSG

“The male and female slaves which you have are to come from the surrounding nations; you are permitted to buy slaves from them.

“You may also buy the children of foreign workers who are living among you temporarily and from their clans which are living among you and have been born in your land. They become your property.

“You may will them to your children as property and make them slaves for life. But you must not tyrannize your brother Israelites” (Leviticus 25:44-46 MSG)

⁴⁷ “‘And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother who dwelleth by him wax poor and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family,

⁴⁸ after he is sold he may be redeemed again. One of his brethren may redeem him:

⁴⁹ either his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he is able, he may redeem himself.

⁵⁰ And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the Year of Jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant shall it be with him.

⁵¹ If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

⁵² And if there remain but few years unto the Year of Jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

⁵³ And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him, and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

— from MSG

“If a foreigner or temporary resident among you becomes rich and one of your brothers becomes poor and sells himself to the foreigner who lives among you or to a member of the foreigner’s clan, he still has the right of redemption after he has sold himself.

“One of his relatives may buy him back. An uncle or cousin or any close relative of his extended family may redeem him. Or, if he gets the money together, he can redeem himself.

“What happens then is that he and his owner count out the time from the year he sold himself to the year of Jubilee; the buy-back price is set according to the wages of a hired hand for that number of years.

“If many years remain before the Jubilee, he must pay back a larger share of his purchase price, but if only a few years remain until the Jubilee, he is to calculate his redemption price accordingly.

“He is to be treated as a man hired from year to year. You must make sure that his owner does not tyrannize him” (Leviticus 25:47-53 MSG)

⁵⁴ And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the Year of Jubilee, both he and his children with him.

⁵⁵ For unto Me the children of Israel are servants. They are My servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God;

— from MSG

“If he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he goes free in the year of Jubilee, he and his children, because the People of Israel are my servants, my servants whom I brought out of Egypt. I am God, your God” Leviticus 25:54-55 MSG

~ by Joel on June 10, 2026.

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