Fairness in Buying and Selling

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Remembering with Joy

Leviticus 25:13-17 Amplified Bible

13 ‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his own [ancestral] property. 14 If you sell anything to your friend or buy from your friend, you shall not wrong one another. 15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall [a]buy from your friend. And he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops [which may be harvested before you must restore the property to him]. 16 If the years [until the next Jubilee] are many, you shall increase the price, but if the years remaining are few, you shall reduce the price, because it is the number of crops that he is selling to you. 17 You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; for I am the Lord your God.

For Reflection

The Year of Jubilee seems to be the Jewish reset button.  It recognizes, accepts, and confronts human error in the business dealings we have with each other.  With these passages, God wishes us to understand we do not own God's universe. We merely rent it!

How would following such a regulation in today's world change the way you deal with each other?

Pray

Pray so that all of your interactions with the people and the environment in which your life 1s based is the equitable distribution of all of God's largess.

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