Leviticus 25:2
Speak with the children of Israel, and say to them: When you have entered into the land that I will give you, the land shall have rest by an intermission (shemet shemittha) before the Lord.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
1And the Lord spake with Mosheh in the mountain of Sinai, saying:
3Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years prune thy vineyard, and gather in its fruit;
Cross References
Exodus 23:10Six years thou shalt sow the land and gather in its produce,
Leviticus 23:32A Sabbath of rest shall it be to you, and ye shall humble your souls, on the ninth of the month at evening: from evening to evening you shall rest your rest.
Leviticus 26:35All the days of its desolateness it shall rest; because it did not rest in your times of intermission, when you were inhabitants upon it.
Deuteronomy 32:49Go up to this mountain of Abaraee, the mountain of Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, over against Jericho, and see the land of Kenaan which I have given to the sons of Israel for possession;
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:2-8
The Sabbatical Year. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord . 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That… Read the whole commentary →