Leviticus 25:21

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

Leviticus 25:21 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:21

Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year,
&c.] Upon their fields, vineyards, and oliveyards, and make them exceeding fruitful, more than in other years; all fruitfulness at any time depends upon the blessing of God, and follows upon it, but is more visible and observable when there is an exceeding great plenty:

and it shall bring forth fruit for three years;
and thus God blessed the sixth year with such a plentiful increase as was sufficient for time to come, until a new crop was gathered in; as he had blessed the sixth day with a double portion of manna, for the supply of the seventh.

Leviticus 25:21 In-Context

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.

23 "The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land.

Footnotes

• [a]. Ex 16:21-23