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Leviticus 24:1-27:34

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Leviticus 24:1-27:34

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Leviticus 24:1-27:34

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This song belongs to the Leviticus collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

Bible book
Leviticus
Collection
Leviticus
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Soul, Blues & Jazz
[Intro] Count seven years, then seven times. Then listen for the horn. [Verse 1] Two dry years and the barley failed, and the debt came knocking hard. I sold the field my father worked and I slept in another man's yard. Then I sold my back to him as well and I worked his rows for pay. The law said, Hire him, don't own him, and he kept it, every day. [Pre-Chorus] Then the tenth day of the seventh month, the day the sins go out, a man up on the hill lifted a ram's horn and the whole valley heard it shout. [Chorus] Blow the trumpet of jubilee! The land is God's, and the man goes free. Pack up the children, open the door, we're going home to the field once more. Blow the trumpet of jubilee! [Verse 2] I took my wife and I took the boys down the road we used to know, and the man who bought my father's field just nodded and let it go. He'd only paid for harvests, counted to this year. Nobody cheated, nobody robbed. I knelt and kissed the dirt right here. [Chorus] Blow the trumpet of jubilee! The land is God's, and the man goes free. Pack up the children, open the door, we're going home to the field once more. Blow the trumpet of jubilee! [Bridge] The land is Mine, the LORD had said, and you're passing through, guests who live on My ground with Me. So no one sells it outright. It comes back home to you. In the sixth year I'll send you bread enough to last for three, so rest the ground in the seventh year and leave the rest to Me. [Final Chorus] Blow the trumpet of jubilee! The land is God's, and the man goes free. Pack up the children, open the door, we're going home to the field once more. Blow the trumpet of jubilee! Fifty years, and the horn is blowing. Fifty years, and I'm going home.

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Leviticus 24: Continual service, and a case that requires a ruling

Leviticus 24 begins with quiet continuity and ends with a public judgment. Israel supplies oil and bread, the priests keep the lamps ordered, and twelve loaves are renewed before the LORD each Sabbath. Then the chapter turns abruptly to a man who blasphemes during a fight. Instead of inventing a penalty, the community holds him until the LORD's judgment is made known. The ruling that follows addresses both the divine name and human injury, with one legal standard for native-born and stranger. Killing a person, killing an animal, and causing bodily harm do not receive the same remedy. The "eye for eye" formula ties consequence to injury rather than opening the door to limitless retaliation. By returning at the end to the original case, the chapter connects general law to the concrete event that required a decision.

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Leviticus 25: The land is the LORD’s, and possession has limits

Leviticus 25 places agriculture, property, poverty, and service under long rhythms of rest and return. Every seventh year the land keeps a Sabbath, suspending ordinary cultivation while its spontaneous produce remains available for people and animals. Seven such cycles lead to Jubilee, when liberty is proclaimed and ancestral possession returns, which means land prices must reflect the number of harvests remaining rather than an imagined permanent transfer. The chapter answers the obvious food question with a promised sixth-year abundance and then gives the property rules their foundation: "the land is mine." Redemption protects a poor Israelite's threatened holding and freedom, but not every asset or servant follows the same rule. Walled-city houses, village houses, Levitical property, Israelite debt service, and foreign slaves are treated differently. The chapter limits permanent loss within Israel while also explicitly permitting hereditary foreign slavery, a boundary that must remain visible rather than being softened into universal release.

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Leviticus 26: Blessing, escalating judgment, and a covenant remembered

Leviticus 26 sets obedience and refusal beside their covenant consequences with increasing intensity. The opening blessings join timely rain, abundant harvest, security, victory, fruitfulness, and the LORD's presence among the people. The reversals then answer those gifts one by one. Seed is eaten by enemies, fear replaces safety, labor fails, roads empty, food is rationed, cities and sanctuaries fall, and exile removes the people from the land. The warnings escalate after repeated refusal to listen, so the chapter describes judgment as a continuing covenant conflict rather than random disaster. Yet desolation produces an unexpected Sabbath: the abandoned land finally receives the rest previously denied it. The closing section then introduces confession, humbled hearts, and the remembered covenants with Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. Judgment remains real, but it does not become the complete cancellation of the relationship. The LORD explicitly denies destroying Israel utterly or breaking his covenant.

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