Leviticus 25:20

20 You may ask, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or bring in our crops?'

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 "Obey my laws, and carefully follow my rules. Then you will live securely in the land.

19 The land will give you its products, and you will eat all you want and live there securely.

20 You may ask, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or bring in our crops?'

21 I will give you my blessing in the sixth year so that the land will produce enough for three years.

22 You will plant [again] in the eighth year but live on what the land already produced. You will eat it, even in the ninth year, until the land produces more.