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LandLord Request - Biblical, Rest land every 7 yrs? No crop ~
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No Till 2
Posted 5/4/2013 15:48 (#3079671 - in reply to #2938295)
Subject: Re: LandLord Request - Biblical, Rest land every 7 yrs? No crop ~


Would it be resting if a hay crop were on it and harvested ?

>>>>>>Harvesting is fundamentally “reaping”-----so this is not what was intended. To meet the Biblical model it needs to be grazed or ate from by the orphans, widows, poor and strangers.

However the Judeans by the Roman era had devised a system of hierarchical control where in the land owners would harvest crops that where then supposedly distributed to the poor and needy. They sometimes were compensated for their labor in doing so. Sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare to me and it is also a failed system as that was what was in place at the time of the great rejection that took place in the 1st century AD.

The Pharisees had long before that already abandoned the keeping of a Jubilee Year also, which in turn threw the whole Sabbath Year cycle off track. According to the majority view from Rabbinic sources the Jubilee Year or 50th year was a separate year from the 7 year cycles. Every 50th year was the year after a 7th Sabbath year and the year before the next year 1 of the following cycle. Some propose that year 50 was also year 1 of the next cycle. I believe it was a 50year Jubile cycle not a 49 year cycle. This is critical in determining the correct Sabbath Year today.



Edited by No Till 2 5/4/2013 16:30
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