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Moses in mount Sinai, saying, in monte Sinai, dicendo:

Moses in mount Sinai, saying, in monte Sinai, dicendo:

HARMONY OF THE LAW · VOLUME 1 expressly declare that no oblation of them conferred on the owners of the property a right to claim as their own what grew in their vineyard (during the year;) 686 else it would have been a good excuse to offer to God the first-fruits of the vintage, and under this pretext for the Jews to contend that they had consecrated the whole produce in the first-fruits. But God anticipates this gloss, by shewing that what was said respecting the ordinary cultivation was improperly turned aside to the extraordinary year of rest. But since the word,נאזירnazir, means "separation," I do not see why we should change what accords very well. Still commentators differ as to the meaning of this word; some understand it "relinquishing," because every owner resigned his private property, so that the vintage might be common. Others explain it as expressing that they had abstained from its cultivation for that year. My own opinion, however, as I have said, is simply that the peculiar right of the possessor is called his "separation;" so that it was not lawful for others to touch the vintage except in the Sabbatical year. Thus separation is opposed to common fields free to the public.

Leviticus 25

Leviticus 25:1-7, 20-22

1. And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

1. Loquntus est Jehova ad Mosen in monte Sinai, dicendo:

2. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.

2. Alloquere filios Israel, et dic illis, Quum veneritis in terram quam ego do vobis, sabbathizet terra quiete Jehovae.

3. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

3. Sex annis seminabis agrum tuum, et sex annis putabis vineam tuam, et fructum ejus colliges.

Addition from Fr.

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