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In this year of jubilee you shall return every man to his possession.
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God's Economic Reset
Commentators explain that the Year of Jubilee was a divinely mandated 'great reset' for Israel's economy and social structure. Every 50 years, all ancestral land that had been sold or even gifted away was returned to the original family. This law prevented permanent poverty and the accumulation of land by a few, ensuring that each family retained its God-given inheritance.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The land was to be divided by lot among the families of the Israelites once its possession was obtained (Numbers 26:52–56;[Reference Nu…
19th Century
Anglican
You shall return every man to his possession. —In the year of jubilee every man is to be restored to his landed property,…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
In the year of this jubilee In the beginning of it, as Aben Ezra, though not on the first day of Tisri, but the tent…
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