Leviticus 25:20

And if ye should say, What shall we eat in this seventh year, if we do not sow nor gather in our fruits?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 increase, and ye shall eat to fullness, and shall dwell securely in it.

21Then will I send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and the land shall produce its fruits for three years.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:4But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath, it shall be a rest to the land, a Sabbath to the Lord: thou shalt not sow thy field, and thou shalt not prune thy vine.

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

2 Kings 7:2And the officer on whose hand the king rested, answered Elisha, and said, Behold, if the Lord shall make floodgates in heaven, might this thing be? and Elisha said, Behold, thou shalt see with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

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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