Leviticus 25:21

21 then I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will make the yield for three years.

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 And the land shall give its fruit, and you shall eat {your fill}, and you shall live {securely} on it.

20 And if you should say, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, {if} we do not sow and we do not gather its yield?"

21 then I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will make the yield for three years.

22 And you will sow [in] the eighth year, and you shall eat from the old yield; until the ninth year, until the coming of its yield, you shall eat [the] old [yield].

23 " 'But the land must not be sold in perpetuity, because the land [is] mine, because you [are] aliens and temporary residents with me.

Footnotes

• [a] Or "and"
• [b] Plural
• [c] Or "and"
• [d] Or "produce"