1. Its main scope and purpose were manifestly of the same sort with those of the Sabbatic year――a year of rest from labor, of recuperation for both the laborer and his lands, and of joy in the God of their mercies. Particularly it made provision for restoring lands which had been alienated by any means during the forty-nine intervening years. On this eventful year all lands were to return to the original proprietor and to his estate. The law provided that alienated lands might be redeemed at any time for a price graduated by the years intervening before the Jubilee. But if the poor man was unable to redeem his land and had no relative or friend to redeem it for him before the Jubilee, it then returned to him by the statute with no redemption price. 2. We must note its bearing upon Hebrew servants and its relation to the seventh year emancipation law.――――It treats of two classes of servants of Hebrew blood; those who had sold themselves, because of their poverty, to a fellow Israelite; and those who for the same reason had sold themselves to a wealthy foreigner residing in the land. As to the former class, the law enjoins kind treatment; puts strongly the distinction between the hired and the bond-servant――permitting servants of Hebrew birth to be held in the former state but not in the latter; and finally gave him and his children freedom at the Jubilee.――――Inasmuch as the seventh year emancipation law applied to this very class of servants, if it were enforced there could be no Hebrew servants to go out at the Jubilee except those who had not yet served six full years. This seems to be the bearing of the law of the Jubilee upon Hebrew servants. We can not assume that it superseded the seventh year law and took its place. The historic passage (Jer. 34: 8–17) would quite forbid such a construction. As to the second class――those who had sold themselves to a foreigner――the law gave the right of redemption to any of his friends or to himself, and fixed the terms, providing for his freedom at the Jubilee. 3. The most difficult point is, the bearing of the Jubilee, if any, _upon servants of foreign birth_. Did it, or did it not, provide for their emancipation?