Leviticus 25:22

And 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.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

In Context

21Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

23No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:5And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be twice as much as they get on the other days.

Joshua 5:11And on the day after the Passover, they had for their food the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day.

Isaiah 37:30And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.

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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