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
- 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.
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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