Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 25:17 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 17. 17Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
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Quick Meaning
This verse roots non-oppression in reverence for God.
Read It With
- Leviticus 25:8-17
Read through 25:8-17 and watch how each actor, material, status, or command relates. Leviticus 25:17 roots non-oppression in reverence for God; the whole unit establishes this: Seven sabbatical cycles lead to a fiftieth-year trumpet, return to property and family, fallow, and sale prices scaled to remaining harvest years under the command not to oppress.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Leviticus places this unit within the land-and-release sequence, which moves from Sabbath and Jubilee to land pricing, kin redemption, poverty, Israelite debt service, foreign slavery, and unequal release. Its particular contribution is: Seven sabbatical cycles lead to a fiftieth-year trumpet, return to property and family, fallow, and sale prices scaled to remaining harvest years under the command not to oppress. Within that movement, this verse roots non-oppression in reverence for God.
What Remains True
Roots non-oppression in reverence for God. Within Leviticus 25:8-17, this contributes to the larger claim that seven sabbatical cycles lead to a fiftieth-year trumpet, return to property and family, fallow, and sale prices scaled to remaining harvest years under the command not to oppress.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 25:17, keep the verse inside Leviticus 25:8-17. Hold this boundary: Jubilee is concrete economic restraint but not proof of implementation or a turnkey modern policy. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 25:8-17 — Jubilee proclaims liberty, return, and price limitsSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 25:8-17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 25:8-17
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 25:8-17
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