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  2. Jubilee (biblical) - Wikipedia

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    Were the Jubilee year to be considered identical with year one of the following Sabbatical cycle, the requirement of observing six consecutive years of sowing and pruning could not be observed as only five years would therefore be available for sowing and reaping, not the specified six as Leviticus 25:3 requires. A lot of the misunderstanding ...

  3. Shmita - Wikipedia

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    Shmita placard in an agricultural field (in the year 5782) The sabbath year (shmita; Hebrew: שמיטה, literally "release"), also called the sabbatical year or shǝvi'it (שביעית ‎, literally "seventh"), or "Sabbath of The Land", is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah in the Land of Israel and is observed in Judaism.

  4. Parable of the Tares - Wikipedia

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    Roman law prohibited sowing darnel among the wheat of an enemy, [4] [5] suggesting that the scenario presented here is realistic. [6] Many translations use "weeds" instead of "tares". A similar metaphor is wheat and chaff, replacing (growing) tares by (waste) chaff, and in other places in the Bible "wicked ones" are likened to chaff.

  5. Parable of the Mustard Seed - Wikipedia

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    Hilary of Poitiers: "This grain then when sown in the field, that is, when seized by the people and delivered to death, and as it were buried in the ground by a sowing of the body, grew up beyond the size of all herbs, and exceeded all the glory of the Prophets. For the preaching of the Prophets was allowed as it were herbs to a sick man; but ...

  6. Shevi'it (tractate) - Wikipedia

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    Shevi'it (Hebrew: שְׁבִיעִית, lit."Seventh") is the fifth tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah, dealing with the laws of leaving the fields of the Land of Israel to lie fallow every seventh year; the laws concerning which produce may, or may not be eaten during the Sabbatical year; and the cancellation of debts and the rabbinical ordinance established to allow a ...

  7. The Grain of Wheat - Wikipedia

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    From John 12:23-26 () And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, еxcept a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

  8. Salting the earth - Wikipedia

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    Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the sites of cities razed by conquerors. [1] [2] It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. [3] The best-known example is the salting of Shechem as narrated in the Biblical Book ...

  9. Parable of the Sower - Wikipedia

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    'Sowing the Seed' (Cathedral of Hajdúdorog, Hungary) Parable of the Sower (left) in St Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny, IrelandThe Parable of the Sower (sometimes called the Parable of the Soils) is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 13:1–23, Mark 4:1–20, Luke 8:4–15 and the extra-canonical Gospel of Thomas.