In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.
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In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.
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And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.
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But in the fifth year may ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you more richly the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 19:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Haggai 1:9-11 “You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house. Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”
- Leviticus 26:3-4 “ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- Proverbs 3:9-10 Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
- Ecclesiastes 11:1-2 Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
- Haggai 1:4-6 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste? Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways. You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”
- Haggai 2:18-19 ‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”
- Malachi 3:8-10 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, that God may multiply.
Or, that God may multiply.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 19:25 And in the fifth year shall ye…
Lev 19:25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I [am] the LORD your God.
Ver. 25. That it may yield unto you the increase thereof,] i.e., Abundantly in recompense of those four former years. In doing of God’s will there is great reward.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain That it may yield unto you the increase thereof;…
That it may yield unto you the increase thereof; that God may be pleased to give his blessing, which alone can make them fruitful.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And in the fifth year shall ye eat of…
And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof,.... And so in all succeeding years as long as the tree lasted and bore:
that it may yield unto you the increase thereof; may be so abundantly blessed, and produce so large an increase as to answer the three years' want of any fruit from it, and the dedication of the fruit of the fourth year to the Lord:
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I am the Lord your God; who has promised this increase, is both able and faithful to make it good.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain That it may yield the increase - That God…
That it may yield the increase - That God may be pleased to give his blessing, which alone can make them fruitful.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 19:25. That it may yield the increase —…
Lev 19:25. That it may yield the increase — That God may be pleased to give his blessing, which alone could make them fruitful.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25. That it may yield… the increase — By…
25. That it may yield… the increase — By the divine blessing and by plucking off the blossoms during the first three years. Says Michaelis: “The wisdom of this law is very striking. Every gardener will teach us not to let fruit-trees bear in their earliest years, but to pluck off the blossoms; and for this reason, they will thus thrive the better and bear more abundantly afterwards.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (25) And in the fifth year.—It was only in…
(25) And in the fifth year.—It was only in the fifth year that the owner was permitted to eat the fruits without redeeming them.
That it may yield unto you the increase thereof.—That is, refraining from using the fruits during the first three years, and consecrating to the Lord the fruit of the fourth year in the sacrificial repast, they will realise that hereafter the tree will yield them abundant fruit. So far, therefore, from being losers by waiting till the fifth year, they will actually be gainers.
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