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5 According to 2 Chronicles 36:21, observance of the sabbatical year had been neglected for about 500 years, the 70 year capitivity allowing the land to enjoy its neglected sabbaths, “for as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbaths, to fulfill three-score and ten years” (ASV). After the captivity, the people under Nehemiah bound themselves to the faithful observance of the seventh year. |
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