Leviticus 25:22

While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.

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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

21But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.

23The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:5Then on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”

Joshua 5:11The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.

Isaiah 37:30And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will 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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