Leviticus 25:22

As you sow in the eighth year, you will still be eating from that harvest, which will last until your harvest in the ninth year.

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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 bless you in the sixth year, so that the land will produce a crop that will be enough for three years.

23Land must not be permanently sold, because it really belongs to me. To me you are only foreigners and travelers passing through.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:5On the sixth day they are to collect twice as much as usual and prepare it.”

Joshua 5:11From the very next day they began to eat produce from the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.

Isaiah 37:30Hezekiah, this will be a sign to prove this is true: This year you'll eat what grows by itself. The second year you'll eat what grows from that. But in the third year you'll sow and reap, you'll 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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