Leviticus 25:20

And if ye should say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we are not permitted to sow, and we cannot gather in our harvest:

Leeser Tanakh

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 its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell in safety therein.

21Then will I command my blessing unto you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth a harvest for three years.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:4But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath [in honor] of the Lord: thy field shalt thou not sow, and thy vineyard shalt thou not prune.

Numbers 11:13Whence shall I obtain flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep around me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

2 Kings 7:2Then answered the lord of the king, on whose hand he used to lean, the man of God, and said, Behold, will the Lord make windows in the heavens, that this thing shall be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but thereof shalt thou not eat.

Psalms 78:19Yea, they spoke against God: they said, Will God be able to set in order 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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