Leviticus 25:6

The Shabath ·Intermission· of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

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And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,

In Context

5+ 25:5. Lev 25:5 (Lev 25:1-7, 25:20-22) (#4.318): T. Not to harvest what grows by itself in the Sabbath year, the seventh Year, the Sh'mitta ·Release· Year / R. Not to harvest crops that grow wild in the normal manner during the Sabbath year, the seventh Year, the Sh'mitta ·Release· Year What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, + 25:5. Lev 25:5 (Lev 25:1-7, 25:20-22) (#4.319): T. Not to gather the grapes of your unattended vine in the Sabbath year, the seventh Year, the Sh'mitta ·Release· Year / R. Not to gather the fruit of vines in the Sabbath year, the seventh Year Sh'mitta ·Release· Year in the way it is gathered in all the other years and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

7For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:11+ 23:11. Ex 23:11 (Ex 23:10-11) (#4.283): T. To allow the land to rest and lie fallow in the seventh year Sabbath, the Sh'mitta ·Release· Year / R. To leave free all produce which grew in the Sh'mitta ·Sabbath year· but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

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 →

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