Another of those strange thoughts that come to me from time to time: did the Israelites ever actually celebrate the year of the Jubilee?
The book of Leviticus outlines the requirements for the Jubilee year, which was to come after the seven sabbaths of years (7 * 7 = 49 years), so that every 50th year they should “proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”
Yet the Bible doesn’t tell us that they actually did all that was required in the year of the Jubilee: releasing bondservants, cancelling debts, etc. All we have are the instructions in Leviticus 25 and 27, and another reference in Numbers 36. That’s not to say they never did it, just that it’s not plainly recorded.
I wonder if they did, or if they even tried.
And I wonder if I’m better off sometimes not asking these kinds of questions.
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