Leviticus 25:20

20 If you wonder: 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we don't sow or gather our produce?'

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 "You are to observe My statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.

19 Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat, be satisfied, and live securely in the land.

20 If you wonder: 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we don't sow or gather our produce?'

21 I will appoint My blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.

22 When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.