Levítico 25:4

4 Mas no sétimo ano a terra terá um sábado de descanso, um sábado dedicado ao SENHOR. Não semeiem as suas lavouras nem aparem as suas vinhas.

Levítico 25:4 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:4

But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the
land
From all tillage of it, from planting and cultivating any sort of trees in it; and even from digging pits, ditches; and caves, as say the Jewish writers F13: and this was typical of that rest which believers enter into under the Gospel dispensation, and of the rest in the new Jerusalem state, and especially in the ultimate glory; not only from the labours of the body, but of the mind, through sin, Satan, doubts and fears, and through conflicts with various enemies, and when even all spiritual labours and services will be at an end but that of praise:

a sabbath for the Lord;
for his honour and glory, to ascertain his property in the land, to show the power of his providence, and display his goodness in his care of all creatures, without any means used by them:

thou shalt neither sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard;
under which are comprehended all acts of agriculture, which respect the cultivation of vines, olives, figs, and, according to the Misnah F14, there were some instruments which it was not lawful to sell to an artificer in the seventh year, such as a plough, with all belonging to it, a yoke, a fan, a spade, but he may sell him a scythe, or a sickle, or a cart, and all its instruments; and which the commentators F15 interpret of one that is suspected of working in that year; the house of Shammai say, an heifer that ploughed might not be sold that year.


FOOTNOTES:

F13 Torat Cohenim apud Yalkut, ut supra. (par. 1. fol. 191. 1.)
F14 Sheviith, c. 5. sect. 6.
F15 Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

Levítico 25:4 In-Context

2 “Diga o seguinte aos israelitas: Quando entrarem na terra que dou a vocês, a própria terra guardará um sábado para o SENHOR.
3 Durante seis anos semeiem as suas lavouras, aparem as suas vinhas e façam a colheita de suas plantações.
4 Mas no sétimo ano a terra terá um sábado de descanso, um sábado dedicado ao SENHOR. Não semeiem as suas lavouras nem aparem as suas vinhas.
5 Não colham o que crescer por si, nem colham as uvas das suas vinhas, que não serão podadas. A terra terá um ano de descanso.
6 Vocês se sustentarão do que a terra produzir no ano de descanso, você, o seu escravo, a sua escrava, o trabalhador contratado e o residente temporário que vive entre vocês,
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