Leviticus 25:20
But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
19And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat your fill, fearing no mall's invasion.
21I will give you my blessing the sixth year, and it shall yield the fruits of three years:
Cross References
Leviticus 25:4But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of the resting of the Lord: thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Numbers 11:13Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? they weep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.
2 Kings 7:2Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering the man of God, said: If the Lord should make hood-gates in heaven, can that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
Psalms 78:19And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Matthew 6:25Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?
Luke 12:29And seek not you what you shall eat, or what you shall drink: and be not lifted up on high.
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 →