Saturday, 8/5/17
Let me comment on each of our readings. The first reading
outlined the highly unique rules for jubilee years among the Israelites. Back when
the twelve tribes were preparing for their conquest of the Promised, Joshua sent
in knowledgeable men to survey the whole of the Promised Land, instructing them
to divide the future homeland into twelve
tracts of land of equal value.
Then, Joshua blindfolded the leaders of the tribes, having had
the leaders of each of the tribes to select the tract of land that would belong
to their tribe forever. Next, Joshua instructed the leaders of each family in
each of the tribal lands to blindfolded select the tract of land that would
belong to that family forever. Through the years and centuries land owners sold
or traded away their tribal and family lands, but at every Jubilee Year the
tribal lands and the family land reverted to their original owners.
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