Leviticus 25:20

20 Do I hear you ask, 'What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we don't plant or harvest?'

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 "Keep my decrees and observe my laws and you will live secure in the land.

19 The land will yield its fruit; you will have all you can eat and will live safe and secure.

20 Do I hear you ask, 'What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we don't plant or harvest?'

21 I assure you, I will send such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.

22 While you plant in the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and continue until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.