Leviticus 25:20
And when you say, What do we eat in the seventh year, behold, do we not sow, nor gather our increase?
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
19and the land has given its fruit, and you have eaten to satiety, and have dwelt confidently on it.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:4and in the seventh year is a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to YHWH; you do not sow your field, and you do not prune your vineyard;
Numbers 11:13From where do I have flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give flesh to us, and we eat.
2 Kings 7:2And the captain whom the king has, by whose hand he has been supported, answers the man of God and says, “Behold, YHWH is making windows in the heavens—will this thing be?” And he says, “Behold, you are seeing it with your eyes, and you do not eat thereof.”
Psalms 78:19And they speak against God—they said: “Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?”
Matthew 6:25Because of this I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you may eat, and what you may drink, nor for your body, what you may put on. Is not life more than nourishment, and the body than clothing?
Luke 12:29And you—do not seek what you may eat, or what you may drink, and do not be in suspense,
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 →