Leviticus 25:21

Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

In Context

20And 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

22And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:47Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.

Exodus 16:29See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

Leviticus 25:8And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years;

Deuteronomy 28:8The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

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 →

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