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Context: Near Mount Sinai
Commentators clarify that "in Mount Sinai" doesn't mean Moses was on the peak. Rather, these laws were given while the Israelites were encamped in the region near the mountain, after the Tabernacle was built but before they journeyed onward. This grounds the following laws in a specific historical moment.
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Leviticus
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Albert Barnes
On Leviticus 25:1
18th Century
Theologian
The sabbatical year and the year of Jubilee belong to that great sabbatical system which runs through the religious observances of the Law, but res…
Charles Ellicott
On Leviticus 25:1
19th Century
Bishop
And the Lord spoke to Moses. —This chapter should properly have followed Leviticus 23:0, since the institutions of the sa…
Charles Spurgeon
On Leviticus 25:1–2
19th Century
Preacher
The Jews had much rest provided for them. If they had had faith enough to obey God's commands, they might have been the most favored people; but th…
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John Gill
On Leviticus 25:1
17th Century
Pastor
And the Lord spoke unto Moses in Mount Sinai
Not when Moses was with the Lord on that mount forty days, but after he…
Matthew Henry
On Leviticus 25:1–7
17th Century
Minister
All labor was to cease in the seventh year, just as daily labor on the seventh day. These statutes tell us to beware of covetousness, for a man…