A Land Flowing With Milk and Honey

Leviticus 25:8–17 provides for one of the more interesting statutes in Israel’s history. Beyond the rest that the land and the people were to receive every seven years, when the seventh seven came along, there was to be an additional year of rest and recuperation—the year of jubilee, the 50th year. As much as you might think that the children of Israel would look forward to such a rest, espe