“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.”
Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors. The Jubilee releases the Israelite debt-slave and their children — the family unit is released together, preserving the family's covenant integrity. The return to their own clans and ancestral property is the debt-slave's equivalent of the sold land's return: the Jubilee restores both the property and the person who sold it. The Jubilee is the comprehensive reset of the covenant community's economic life.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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