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10 [1] AND YE SHALL HALLOW THE FIFTIETH YEAR. All the inhabitants with regard to working the land.
[2] LIBERTY. The meaning of the word *deror* is known. It means liberty. *As the flying swallow* (deror) (Prov. 26:2) refers to a small bird that produces music when it is free. However, if it is taken captive it refuses to eat and starves to death.
[3] JUBILEE. The word *yovel* (Jubilee) means sent. The sages, of blessed memory, said that the meaning of *yovel* is a lamb. *Shoferot ha-yovelim* (rams’ horns) (Josh. 6:4) is proof of the latter. The year is called by the name of the *shofar*.
[4] [BE UNTO YOU.] To the Israelites alone.
[5] AND YE SHALL RETURN EVERY MAN UNTO HIS POSSESSION. As Scripture goes on to explain, in the year of Jubilee the land that is sold shall return to its owners.
[6] AND YE SHALL RETURN EVERY MAN UNTO HIS FAMILY. The servant sold to an Israelite.
Version: Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004
Source: https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH001102376/NLI
License: CC-BY-NC