Deuteronomy 15:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Every seven years thou shalt make a release.

² If thou purchase a Hebrew servant, he shall serve thee six years, but in the seventh year he shall go out free without ransom.

¹⁰ Six years thou shalt sow thy ground and gather in the products thereof; ¹¹ but on the seventh thou shalt give it rest and let it lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave, let the wild beasts of the field eat. The same thou shalt do with thy vineyards and thy olives.

² Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give you, the land which I give you must rest sabbaths for the Lord. ³ Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather the fruit thereof. ⁴ But in the seventh year there shall be sabbaths; there shall be a rest for the land; sabbaths for the Lord. Thou shalt neither sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard,

¹⁰ And Moses gave them a charge on that day saying, At the end of every seven years, at the Solemnity of the release, during the festival of tabernacles,

¹ [M] THE SPIRIT of the Lord is upon me, for the business for which he anointed me. He hath sent me to publish glad tidings to the poor, to heal them who are brokenhearted; to proclaim a deliverance to captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind: ² to proclaim an acceptable year of the Lord and a day of retribution. To comfort all who are mourning; ³ that to the mourners in Sion may be given, glory instead of ashes, oil of joy to the mourners, robes of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called generations of righteousness, a plant of the Lord for glory.

⁸ So Baruch did according to all that Jeremias commanded him, that he might read from the book the words of the Lord in the house of the Lord. ⁹ And it came to pass that in the eighth year of the reign of Joakim, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and the house of Juda kept a solemn fast before the Lord. ¹⁰ And Baruch read from the book the words of Jeremias in the house of the Lord in the house of Gamarias son of Saphan the scribe, in the upper court at the vestibule of the new gate of the house of the Lord and in the hearing of all the people. ¹¹ And when Michaias son of Gamarias son of Saphan heard all the words of the Lord from the book, ¹² he went down to the king's house, to the house of the secretary; and lo! all the chiefs were there in council, namely, Elisama the secretary, and Dalias son of Selemias, and Jonathan son of Achobar and Gamarias son of Saphan and Sedekias son of Ananias and all the chiefs. ¹³ And when Michaias told them all the words which he had heard, which Baruch read in the hearing of the people, ¹⁴ all the chiefs sent Judin son of Nathanias son of Selemias, son of Chusi to Baruch, saying, Take in thy hand the roll thou art reading to the people and come. Accordingly Baruch took the roll and went down to them. ¹⁵ And they said to him, Read it again to us. So Baruch read it. ¹⁶ And when they had heard all the words, they consulted, and said one to another, We must certainly inform the king of all these words. ¹⁷ Then they questioned Baruch and said, Where didst thou write all these words? And Baruch said, From his mouth. Jeremias dictated to me all these words and I wrote them in a book. ¹⁸ Then they said to Baruch, Go and hide, both thou and Jeremias and let no man know where you are.

¹⁸ The spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the business for which he anointed me. He hath sent me to publish glad tidings to the poor; to heal them who are broken hearted; to proclaim a deliverance to captives; and a recovery of sight, to the blind; to set at liberty the bruised; ¹⁹ to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."