Leviticus 25:7

7 your animals, and the wild animals in your land. Everything the land produces will be yours to eat.

Leviticus 25:7 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:7

And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that [are] in thy land,
&c.] The former signifies tame cattle, such as were kept at home, or in fields, or were used in service, and the latter the wild beasts of the field:

shall all the increase thereof be meat;
for the one, and for the other; Jarchi remarks, that all the time a wild beast eats of the increase of the field, the cattle may be fed at home; but when it ceaseth to the wild beast of the field, then it ceaseth to the cattle at home; nay, the Jews are so strict in this matter, that they say that when there is no food for the beasts in the field, men are obliged to bring out what they have in their houses ^F18, see ( Isaiah 11:6 Isaiah 11:7 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 Maimon. Hilchot Shemitah Vejobel, c. 7. sect. 1.

Leviticus 25:7 In-Context

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.

8 "Count seven of these years seven times for a total of 49 years.

9 On the tenth day of the seventh month, the special day for the payment for sin, sound rams' horns throughout the country.