Leviticus 25:22

And in the eighth year you shall sow, but you shall eat from the old produce, until the ninth year, until what is new matures, you shall eat what is old.

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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

21I will give my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it shall yield the produce of three years.

23Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:5But on the sixth day, let them prepare what they use for carrying, and let there be double what they were accustomed to collect on a single day.”

Joshua 5:11And on the following day, they ate unleavened bread from the grain of the land, and cooked grain, of the same year.

Isaiah 37:30But this shall be a sign for you: Eat, in this year, whatever springs up on its own. And in the second year, eat fruits. But in the third year, sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat 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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