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Zakhor
The Bible · 32/54

Behar

The sabbatical year, the jubilee, redemption, the prohibition of interest.

Hebrew name
בְּהַר
Book
Leviticus
Verses
Lv 25,1–26,2
Haftara
Jr 32,6–27

Every fifty years, lands return to families and servants are freed: the jubilee is a mechanism for debt cancellation and the restitution of family patrimony. Property is never definitive there, "for the land is mine". It is the most radical text in the Bible on economic matters, and the most debated as to its effective application.