King David's 4th of July

Those are the words inscribed on the Liberty Bell cast in 1752 in Pennsylvania.  The full phrase reads: “Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof,” and it was taken from a verse in Vayikra, Leviticus 25:10 about what was to be done in what the Torah calls the Jubilee Year.  These instructions included laws regarding the return of property and the freeing of slaves.