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Jubilee


Joo´buh-lee

The fiftieth year occurring at the end of seven sabbatical cycles of seven years each, in which all land was left fallow and returned to its ancestral owners and all Israelite slaves were freed. The Jubilee is described in (Lev 25:8-17, Lev 23-55; Lev 27:16-25; and Num 36:4).

  • Powell, Mark Allan, ed. HarperCollins Bible Dictionary. Abridged Edition. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.