Leviticus 25:20

20 Suppose you ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we don't plant or gather our crops then?"

Leviticus 25:20 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:20

And ye shall say, what shall ye eat the seventh year?
&c.] Such as are of little faith, disbelieve the promise, and distrust the providence of God, and take thought for tomorrow, and indulge an anxiety of mind how they shall be provided with food in the sabbatical year ordered to be observed, in which there were to be no tillage of land, nor pruning of trees: behold, we shall not sow;
that being forbidden: nor gather in our increase;
neither the barley, nor the wheat, nor the grapes, nor olives, nor figs, into their houses and barns, to lay up for stores, as in other years; though they might go out and gather in for present use in common with others: now if any should put the above question, as it was very likely some would, in such a view of things, the answer to it follows.

Leviticus 25:20 In-Context

18 You will observe my rules, and you will keep my regulations and do them so that you can live securely on the land.

19 The land will give its fruit so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.

20 Suppose you ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we don't plant or gather our crops then?"

21 I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year so that it will make enough produce for three years.

22 You can plant again in the eighth year and eat food from the previous year's produce until the ninth year. Until its produce comes, you will eat the food from the previous year.