Leviticus 25:2
Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.
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In Context
1And the Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
Cross References
Exodus 23:10For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;
Leviticus 23:32Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept.
Leviticus 26:35All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it.
Deuteronomy 32:49Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab opposite Jericho; there you may see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel for their heritage:
2 Chronicles 36:21So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.
Psalms 115:16The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:2-8
The Sabbatical Year. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord . 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That… Read the whole commentary →