Leviticus 25:21

21 I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.

Leviticus 25:21 in Other Translations

21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

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

21 Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years.

21 I assure you, I will send such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.

21 then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.

21 I will give you my blessing in the sixth year so that the land will produce enough for three years.

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

21 I will send you a great blessing in the sixth year. The land will produce enough 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 Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.

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.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 28:8,12; Psalms 133:3; Psalms 134:3; Psalms 147:13; Ezekiel 44:30; Haggai 2:19; Malachi 3:10
• 2. S Exodus 16:5