Quotes About Community

You are not to do any work at all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.

It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”

On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day.

On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,

So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.

You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.í”

Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,

and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.

And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.

Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.

The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.

For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.

In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.

If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.

You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.

Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.

Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.

The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.