Today is the second day of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is fantastic to be here with you as we get ourselves acclimated and adjusted into this brand new month, the third month of the year.

Here in the Rolling Hills of Tennessee where we are, we should be seeing signs of spring before this month is over.

Maybe not in full swing, who knows, but maybe not in full swing, but there'll be signs that winter is coming to a close.

And a little bit longer days here there when the time changes, daylight savings time changes, it gets dark so early and so when we come forward to the longer days, at this month begins at least I start to notice.

But enough about all of that, we are here around the global campfire today to take the next step forward in the scriptures.

And that next step will lead us back into the book of Leviticus.

We are reading from the new international version this week and today the Viticus chapter 25 verse 47 through 27 verse 13.

If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner's clan, they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves.

One of their relatives may redeem them, an uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them, or if they prosper they may redeem themselves.

They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the year of Jubilee.

The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.

If many years remain they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them.

If only a few years remain until the year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.

They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year.

You must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.

Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the year of Jubilee.

For the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of Egypt.

I am the Lord your God.

Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves and do not place a carved stone in your land about down before it.

I am the Lord your God.

Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruits.

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