Leviticus 25:20

And if ye shall say: 'What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase';

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

In Context

19And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat until ye have enough, and dwell therein in safety.

21then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth produce for the three years.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:4But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto the LORD; thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

Numbers 11:13Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they trouble me with their weeping, saying: Give us flesh, that we may eat.

2 Kings 7:2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said: 'Behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might this thing be?' And he said: 'Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.'

Psalms 78:19Yea, they spoke against God; they said: 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

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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