Leviticus 25:14

“And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, etc.] Any estate or possession, house or land, at any time before the year of jubilee: or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour’s hand; of movable goods, as the Targum of Jonathan interprets it; and so other Jewish writers f870 restrain this to goods which are bought by hand, and delivered from hand to hand; and so they think that fields, and servants, which they say are like to fields, are excluded hereby; but it seems to refer to anything saleable, and chiefly to fields and vineyards, as the following verses show; wherefore Diodorus Siculus, as quoted by Grotius, must be mistaken, when he says, it was not counted lawful by the Jews to sell their…”

“Sell ought - i. e., any piece of ground. Oppress one another - Rather, overreach one another. (Compare 1 Samuel 12:3-4). return to 'Top of Page'”

“Ye shall not oppress - Neither the seller by requiring more, nor the buyer by taking the advantage from his brother's necessities to give him less than the worth of it. Leviticus 25:15”

“Lev 25:17, Lev 19:13; Deu 16:19, Deu 16:20; Jdg 4:3; Sa1 12:3, Sa1 12:4; Ch2 16:10; Neh 9:36, Neh 9:37; Job 20:19, Job 20:20; Psa 10:18; Pro 14:31, Pro 21:13, Pro 22:16, Pro 28:3, Pro 28:8, Pro 28:16; Ecc 5:8; Isa 1:17, Isa 3:12-15, Isa 5:7, Isa 33:15, Isa 58:6; Jer 22:17; Eze 22:7, Eze 22:12, Eze 22:13; Amo 5:11, Amo 5:12, Amo 8:4-7; Mic 2:2, Mic 2:3, Mic 6:10-12, Mic 7:3; Luk 3:14; Co1 6:8; Jam 5:1-5 Leviticus 25:15”