Leviticus 25Acts 8.9-40Leviticus 25
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And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
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Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof
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But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
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That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: [for] it is a year of rest unto the land.
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And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
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And for thy cattle, and for the beast that [are] in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
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And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
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Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
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And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
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A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine undressed.
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For it [is] the jubile it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
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In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
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And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
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According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, [and] according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
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According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for [according] to the number [of the years] of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
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Ye shall not therefore oppress one another but thou shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the LORD your God.
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Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
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And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
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And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
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Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
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And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat [yet] of old fruit until the ninth year until her fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old [store].
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The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
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And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
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If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away [some] of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
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And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it
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Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it that he may return unto his possession.
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But if he be not able to restore [it] to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
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And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold [within] a full year may he redeem it.
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And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that [is] in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
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But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
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Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
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And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in [the year of] jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites [are] their possession among the children of Israel.
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But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold for it [is] their perpetual possession.
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And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner that he may live with thee.
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Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God that thy brother may live with thee.
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Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
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I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, [and] to be your God.
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And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
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[But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
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And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
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For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
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Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour but shalt fear thy God.
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Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
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Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
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And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
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And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother [that dwelleth] by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger [or] sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
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After that he is sold he may be redeemed again one of his brethren may redeem him:
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Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or [any] that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
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And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
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If [there be] yet many years [behind], according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
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And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, [and] according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
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[And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
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And if he be not redeemed in these [years], then he shall go out in the year of jubile, [both] he, and his children with him.
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For unto me the children of Israel [are] servants they [are] my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.
Acts 8
9-40
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But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
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To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
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And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
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But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
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Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
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Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:
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Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
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(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
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Then laid they [their] hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
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And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
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Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
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But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
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Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
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Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
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For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and [in] the bond of iniquity.
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Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
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And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
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And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
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And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
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Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
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Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
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And Philip ran thither to [him], and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
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And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
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The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
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In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
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And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?
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Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
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And as they went on [their] way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, [here is] water what doth hinder me to be baptized?
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And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
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And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch and he baptized him.
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And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
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But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
