Leviticus 25:7

7 It will also be food for your cattle and the wild animals of your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

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 You must not cut the crops that grow by themselves after harvest, or gather the grapes from your vines that are not trimmed. The land will have a year of rest.

6 "'You may eat whatever the land produces during that year of rest. It will be food for your men and women servants, for your hired workers, and for the foreigners living in your country.

7 It will also be food for your cattle and the wild animals of your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

8 "'Count off seven groups of seven years, or forty-nine years. During that time there will be seven years of rest for the land.

9 On the Day of Cleansing, you must blow the horn of a male sheep; this will be on the tenth day of the seventh month. You must blow the horn through the whole country.