Leviticus 25:5

5 Don't harvest what grows by itself or harvest grapes from your vines. That year will be a festival for the land.

Leviticus 25:5 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:5

That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt
not reap
That which sprung up of itself from grains of corn, shed in the harvest of the preceding year, without any ploughing or sowing; he might reap it, but not as at other times, the whole of it, and gather it as his own property, but only somewhat of it in common with others for his, present use:

neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed;
which was on this year forbid to be dressed; the grapes of which he might gather in common with others, but not as in other years, all of them, and as peculiarly his own: the words may be rendered, "the grapes of thy separations" {p}; either such as in other years he used to separate for himself, and forbid others gathering them, but now made them common; or which he did not labour in the cultivation of, but abstained from it:

[for] it is a year of rest unto the land;
which is repeated, that it may be observed.


FOOTNOTES:

F16 (Kryzn ybne) "uvas tuarum separationum", Pagninus, Montanus; so Drusius & Ainsworth.

Leviticus 25:5 In-Context

3 Then, for six years you may plant crops in your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather what they produce.
4 However, the seventh year will be a festival year for the land. It will be a year to honor the LORD. Don't plant crops in your fields or prune your vineyards.
5 Don't harvest what grows by itself or harvest grapes from your vines. That year will be a festival for the land.
6 Whatever the land produces during that year is for all of you to eat--for you, your male and female slaves, your hired workers, foreigners among you,
7 your animals, and the wild animals in your land. Everything the land produces will be yours to eat.
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