Leviticus 25:22

You will plant in the eighth year and continue to eat from the previous years' produce and the stored food. Until the harvest of the ninth year comes in, you will be able to eat from the provisions stored in the previous years.

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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

21I will command my blessing to come upon you in the sixth year, and it will produce harvest enough for three years.

23The land must not be sold to a new permanent owner, because the land is mine. You are all foreigners and temporary residents on my land.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:5It will come about on the sixth day, that they will gather twice as much as what they gathered every day before, and they will cook what they bring in.”

Joshua 5:11On the day after Passover, that same day, they ate some of the produce of the land on the day, unleavened bread and roasted grain.

Isaiah 37:30This will be the sign for you: 1 This year you will eat what grows wild, and in the second year what grows from that. 1 But in the third year you must plant and harvest, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 1

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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