Leviticus 25:20

20 But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?

Leviticus 25:20 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:20

And ye shall say, what shall ye eat the seventh year?
&c.] Such as are of little faith, disbelieve the promise, and distrust the providence of God, and take thought for tomorrow, and indulge an anxiety of mind how they shall be provided with food in the sabbatical year ordered to be observed, in which there were to be no tillage of land, nor pruning of trees: behold, we shall not sow;
that being forbidden: nor gather in our increase;
neither the barley, nor the wheat, nor the grapes, nor olives, nor figs, into their houses and barns, to lay up for stores, as in other years; though they might go out and gather in for present use in common with others: now if any should put the above question, as it was very likely some would, in such a view of things, the answer to it follows.

Leviticus 25:20 In-Context

18 Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear.
19 And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat your fill, fearing no man’s invasion.
20 But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?
21 I will give you my blessing the sixth year: and it shall yield the fruits of three years.
22 And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old store.
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