Bible Dictionaries
Year, Sabbatical

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

  (Hebrew: shabbathon, year of rest)

  The seventh year devoted to a cessation of agriculture, and holding in the period of seven years a place analogous to that of the Sabbath in the week. The three prescriptions enjoined were:

  

  • all agricultural labor was to be suspended
  • no debts could be exacted from an Israelite
  • the law was to be read on the Feast of Tabernacles to all Israel
  • The object of the year was to impress on the people that the land was the Lord's and they only the tenants.

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