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Leviticus 24:1-27:34

The Trumpet of Jubilee

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The Trumpet of Jubilee

Leviticus 24:1-27:34

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This song belongs to the Leviticus collection. 2 recordings are available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

Bible book
Leviticus
Collection
Leviticus
Musical styles
Classical, Uncategorized
[Intro] Keep the olive flame in order. Set twelve loaves before the veil. Week by week the table testifies: The tribes are held in view. [Verse 1] A blaspheming mouth was brought outside; Stranger and native met one law. Then Sinai spoke beyond the courtroom To the furrow, vine, and field: Six years take the harvest, One year let the ground lie still. [Pre-Chorus] Count seven years seven times. Wait for Atonement's morning. [Chorus] Sound the trumpet through the land, Homeward, every household! Open the field, release the hand, Let the fiftieth year be heard. Jubilee! The soil is God's. Jubilee! The servant rises. [Verse 2] Price the field by harvests left, Give the poor man room to live. Let the nearest kin redeem him; Rule no brother with a whip. Walled houses keep their measure, But the village ground returns. [Bridge] Rain and peace were set before them, Then the warning darkened hard: Sword and famine, empty cities, Scattered feet and resting land. Still a humbled heart in exile Could confess and be remembered. [Verse 3] Vow and house and field were valued; Every tenth passed under the rod. Nothing named as wholly given Could be traded back for gain. [Chorus] Sound the trumpet through the land, Homeward, every household! Open the field, release the hand, Let the fiftieth year be heard. Jubilee! Inheritance awakens. Jubilee! The covenant remembers. [Outro] The horn crossed every boundary, And freedom knew its year.

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About the passage

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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