Saturday, February 16, 2008

Leviticus 25; Psalm 31:9-13; Acts 22

Leviticus 25
1-7 - The Sabbatical Year
  • 7th year after entering the land - a year of rest
  • No sowing or pruning
  • No reaping of the aftergrowth or gathering grapes of unpruned vines
  • Eat what the land yields - you, your slaves, your bound laborers, your livestock, and the wild animals
8-55 - Year of Jubilee
  • 50th year to be hallowed
  • Everyone returns to property
  • No sowing or reaping or harvesting; eat only what the land produces
  • Buy and sell land according to worth of crop since or until the jubilee year
  • God would increase the crop in the year before the jubilee year
  • Relative can redeem sold land
  • House within walled city may be redeemed only in the first year after sale
  • Different laws for Levites
  • Support your dependent relatives; do not charge them interest
  • Hire, don't enslave, impoverished dependents
  • In year of jubilee, they may return to their ancestral property
  • You may makes slaves of aliens, non-Israelites
  • Those enslaved to aliens freed in Jubilee year, may redeem themselves, or be redeemed by family member, before then, if they pay proportionately.
Psalm 31:9-13 - Sad words from David: distress, grief, sorrow, sighing, misery, waste, scorn, horror, dread, a broken vessel, terror all around... v. 14 - "But..."

Acts 22 - Paul's Defense continues
1-5 - His Jewish history, persecution of Christians
6-16 - His conversion and baptism in Damascus
17-21 - Back in Jerusalem, in a trance, told by Jesus to go leave Jerusalem and go to the Gentiles
22-29 - Crowd still angry, tribune wants to flog him until he discovers Paul is a Roman citizen
30 - Tribune releases Paul to stand before the Jewish priests and council

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