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For your cattle, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all the increase of it be for food.
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Provision for All Creation
Commentators explain that the Sabbatical year's produce was not just for the Israelites but was to be shared with all creatures. Both domestic cattle and wild animals had a right to the land's increase. This demonstrates God's care for all of His creation and challenges the idea of exclusive ownership, as the land's bounty was free for all.
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Anglican
And for your cattle. —In accordance with the benign legislation that was in effect during the Second Temple, the administ…
Baptist
There was to be no private property in the spontaneous produce of that year. It was free to everybody; free even to the cattle, which might go and …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And for your cattle, and for the beasts that [are] in your land , &c.] The former signifies tame cattle, such as wer…
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Presbyterian
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…
