Leviticus 25:20

And if you say, What shall we eat in the seventh year; behold, we are not to sow, nor to gather in our fruit?

Targum Onkelos

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 fruitage, and you shall eat unto the full, and dwell upon it in security.

21I will command My benediction upon you in the sixth year, and it shall produce for three years.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:4But in the seventh year the land shall have a respite of rest (neach shemittha), a respite before the Lord; thou shalt not sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard.

Numbers 11:13Whence shall I have flesh to give to all this people? For they lament to me, saying: Give us flesh to eat.

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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