Nehemiah reissues the Law of Jubilee
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- Debt: The First 5,000 Years whole source · open book
The most famous of these is the Law of Jubilee: a law that stipulated that all debts would be automatically canceled “in the Sabbath year” (that is, after seven years had passed), and that all who languished in bondage owing to such debts would be released.
chapter: 4: Cruelty and Redemption