“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into (A)the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

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“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the Lord.

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21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had (A)enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate (B)it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

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21 The land enjoyed its sabbath rests;(A) all the time of its desolation it rested,(B) until the seventy years(C) were completed in fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah.

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34 (A)“Then the land shall enjoy[a] its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 26:34 Or pay for; twice in this verse; also verse 43

34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate(A) and you are in the country of your enemies;(B) then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest(C) it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

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Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals

10 (A)“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,

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Sabbath Laws

10 “For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops,

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and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, (A)reaching even to the neck, and its (B)outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, (C)O Immanuel.”

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and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,(A)
    passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings(B) will cover the breadth of your land,
    Immanuel[a]!”(C)

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  1. Isaiah 8:8 Immanuel means God with us.

The King of Glory

A Psalm of David.

24 (A)The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof,[a]
    the world and those who dwell therein,
for he has (B)founded it upon (C)the seas
    and established it upon the rivers.

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  1. Psalm 24:1 Or and all that fills it

Psalm 24

Of David. A psalm.

The earth is the Lord’s,(A) and everything in it,
    the world, and all who live in it;(B)
for he founded it on the seas
    and established it on the waters.(C)

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And the Lord said to him, (A)“This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ (B)I have let you see it with your eyes, but (C)you shall not go over there.”

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Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath(A) to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob(B) when I said, ‘I will give it(C) to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross(D) over into it.”

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49 “Go up (A)this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession.

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49 “Go up into the Abarim(A) Range to Mount Nebo(B) in Moab, across from Jericho,(C) and view Canaan,(D) the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession.

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When the Most High (A)gave to the nations their inheritance,
    when he (B)divided mankind,
he fixed the borders[a] of the peoples
    according to the number of the sons of God.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:8 Or territories
  2. Deuteronomy 32:8 Compare Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text sons of Israel

When the Most High(A) gave the nations their inheritance,
    when he divided all mankind,(B)
he set up boundaries(C) for the peoples
    according to the number of the sons of Israel.[a](D)

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:8 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) sons of God

32 It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath.”

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32 It is a day of sabbath rest(A) for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.”(B)

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34 “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you (A)for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession,

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34 “When you enter the land of Canaan,(A) which I am giving you as your possession,(B) and I put a spreading mold in a house in that land,

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“It is I who (A)by my great power and my outstretched arm (B)have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, (C)and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.

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With my great power and outstretched arm(A) I made(B) the earth and its people and the animals(C) that are on it, and I give(D) it to anyone I please.

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16 The heavens are the Lord's heavens,
    but the earth he has given to the children of man.

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16 The highest heavens belong to the Lord,(A)
    but the earth he has given(B) to mankind.

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