Leviticus 25:20
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell in safety in it.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:4but in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to LORD. Thou shall neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Numbers 11:13From where should I have flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
2 Kings 7:2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if LORD should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shall see it with thine eyes, but shall not eat of it.
Psalms 78:19Yea, they spoke against God. They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Matthew 6:25Because of this I say to you, be not anxious about your life, what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, nor yet for your body, what ye may wear. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the clothing?
Luke 12:29And do not seek what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, and do not be unsettled.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:9-23
Institution of the Jubilee; the Year of the Jubilee. ( b. c. 1490.) 8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the… Read the whole commentary →