The Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai. The sabbatical year and Jubilee regulations are uniquely grounded at Mount Sinai — the only regulations in the Holiness Code explicitly located at Sinai. The Sinai grounding communicates the foundational character of these regulations: the sabbatical and Jubilee principles are as fundamental to the covenant as the Ten Commandments and the covenant law. Isaiah 61:1–2 announces a year of the Lord's favor — the Jubilee imagery — which Jesus applies to himself in Luke 4:18–19 as the inaugural proclamation of his ministry.

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