Leviticus 25:20
'And when ye say, What do we eat in the seventh year, lo, we do not sow, nor gather our increase?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
19and the land hath given its fruit, and ye have eaten to satiety, and have dwelt confidently on it.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:4and in the seventh year a sabbath of rest is to the land, a sabbath to Jehovah; thy field thou dost not sow, and thy vineyard thou dost not prune;
Numbers 11:13Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give to us flesh, and we eat.
2 Kings 7:2And the captain whom the king hath, by whose hand he hath been supported, answereth the man of God and saith, 'Lo, Jehovah is making windows in the heavens — shall this thing be?' and he saith, 'Lo, thou art seeing it with thine eyes, and thereof thou dost not eat.'
Psalms 78:19And they speak against God — they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'
Matthew 6:25'Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?
Luke 12:29'And ye — seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense,
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 →