Leviticus 25:20
And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
19And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:4But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.
Numbers 11:13Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.
2 Kings 7:2Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.
Psalms 78:19They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?
Matthew 6:25So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
Luke 12:29And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.
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 →