Leviticus 25:22

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

Leviticus 25:22 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
English Standard Version (ESV)
22 When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.
New Living Translation (NLT)
22 When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.
The Message Bible (MSG)
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.
American Standard Version (ASV)
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, ye shall eat the old store.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
22 You will plant [again] in the eighth year but live on what the land already produced. You will eat it, even in the ninth year, until the land produces more.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
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.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
22 While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat food from the old crop. You will continue to eat food from it until the crops from the ninth year are gathered.

Leviticus 25:22 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:22

And ye shall sow the eighth year
Sow the land in the eighth year, and likewise dress their vines, olives

and eat [yet] of the old fruit;
even in the eighth year, of the old fruit of the sixth year, as the Targum of Jonathan adds:

until the ninth year;
that is, as Jarchi explains it, until the feast of tabernacles of the ninth, which was the time that the increase of the eighth came into the house; for all summer it was in the field, and in Tisri or September was the time of gathering it into the house; and sometimes it was necessary to provide for four years on the sixth, which was before the sabbatical year, the seventh, for they ceased from tilling the ground two years running, the seventh and the jubilee year; but this Scripture is said concerning all the rest of the sabbatical years: these encouraging promises, one would have thought, would have been placed more naturally after the account of the sabbatical year that followed, ( Leviticus 25:7 ) ; but the reason of their being inserted here seems to be, because in the year of jubilee they were neither to sow nor reap, nor gather in the grapes of the undressed vine, as in the sabbatical year, ( Leviticus 25:11 ) ; wherefore those things are said for encouragement at the one time as at the other; since it might easily be concluded, that he that could provide for them every sixth year for three years to come, could once in fifty years provide for four:

until her fruits come in, ye shall eat [of] the old [store];
some of which came in in March, as barley, others in May, as the wheat, and others in August and September, as the grapes, olives which was the time of ingathering several fruits of the earth, and of finishing the whole.

Leviticus 25:22 In-Context

20 You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?”
21 I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.
22 While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.
23 “ ‘The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers.
24 Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

Cross References 1

  • 1. Leviticus 26:10
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