Leviticus 25:7

Verse 7. Cattle. This last term in Hebrew Septuagint and so forth means “wild beasts,” which must also live. At this period of the seventh year debts were to be remitted, the law read, and so forth Exodus 21:2. Deuteronomy 15:2 and 31:10. But in the jubilee year, even those Hebrew slaves whose ears had been pierced, and those who had sold their land, regained their liberty and possessions. Calmet.—Their children and wives, according to Josephus, went out with them, verse 41. Houses and suburbs for gardens, and so forth might be sold for ever, if they were not redeemed the first year, excepting those of the Levites, verse 34. Tirinus.