“ ‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;” then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years. You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
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“ ‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”
then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.
You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
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Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
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.
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Wherefore ye shall do My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat until ye have enough, and dwell therein in safety.
And if ye shall say: 'What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase';
then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth produce for the three years.
And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the produce, the old store; until the ninth year, until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old store.
Cross-references (53)
- Deuteronomy 28:8 (v21) Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh…
- Proverbs 10:22 (v21) Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
- 2 Corinthians 9:10 (v21) Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your…
- Psalms 133:3 (v21) like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.
- Deuteronomy 28:3 (v21) You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
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- Genesis 26:12 (v21) Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- Genesis 41:47 (v21) In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.
- Exodus 16:29 (v21) Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his…
- Deuteronomy 12:10 (v18) But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your…
- Proverbs 1:33 (v18) But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”
- Jeremiah 23:6 (v18) In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
- Leviticus 25:4 (vv20–21) but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune…
- Leviticus 25:8-11 (v21) “ ‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years,…
- Psalms 85:12 (v19) Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.
- Joel 2:26 (v19) You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my…
- Luke 12:29 (v20) Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
- Leviticus 26:3-12 (v18) “ ‘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…
- Leviticus 26:5 (v19) Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the…
- Leviticus 26:10 (v22) You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
- Numbers 11:4 (v20) The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to…
- Numbers 11:13 (v20) Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
- Deuteronomy 28:1-14 (v18) It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you…
- 2 Kings 6:15-17 (v20) When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant…
- 2 Kings 19:29 (v22) “This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from that; and…
- 2 Chronicles 25:9 (v20) Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God…
- Psalms 4:8 (v18) In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.
- Psalms 78:19-20 (v20) Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,…
- Isaiah 1:2 (v20) Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.
- Ezekiel 33:24-26 (v18) “Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we…
- Matthew 6:25-34 (v20) Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear.…
- Matthew 8:26 (v20) He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
- Philippians 4:6 (v20) In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
- Hebrews 13:5-6 (v20) Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any…
- Ezekiel 34:25-28 (vv18–19) “ ‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the…
- Leviticus 19:37 (v18) “ ‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’ ”
- Deuteronomy 33:12 (v18) About Benjamin he said, “The beloved of Yahweh will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all day long. He dwells between his shoulders.”
- Deuteronomy 33:28 (v18) Israel dwells in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
- Joshua 5:11-12 (v22) They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day. The manna…
- Psalms 67:6 (v19) The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.
- Psalms 103:18 (v18) to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.
- Isaiah 30:23 (v19) He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and…
- Isaiah 37:30 (v22) “ ‘This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and…
- Isaiah 65:21-22 (v19) They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They will not build and another inhabit. They will…
- Jeremiah 7:3-7 (v18) Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Don’t trust in…
- Jeremiah 33:16 (v18) In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. This is the name by which she will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.”
- Ezekiel 33:29 (v18) Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which…
- Ezekiel 36:24-28 (v18) “ ‘ “For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. I will…
- Ezekiel 36:30 (v19) I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
- Joel 2:24 (v19) The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
- 2 Kings 7:2 (v20) Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this…
- Jeremiah 25:5 (v18) saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv18, 21 Or, boldly without fear.
Or, boldly without fear.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv18, 20, 21, 22 Lev 25:18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and…
Lev 25:18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Ver. 18. Ye shall do my statutes.] Ye shall do them, and do them: that is, ye shall do them diligently, {as Psa 119:4} and then ye shall dwell in the land in safety; yea, ye shall dwell there in safety: that is, ye shall assuredly; take my word for it.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv20–22 A like objection, see Exo 34:23,24.
A like objection, see Exo 34:23,24.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv18–22 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my…
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them,.... These and all others he enjoined; by which tenure, even obedience to all his commands, moral, ritual, and judicial, they were to hold the land of Canaan, and their possessions in it, which is intended in the next clause:
and ye shall dwell in the land in safety; without any fear of enemies, or of the neighbouring nations about them seizing upon them, and distressing them; and Jarchi observes, that it was for transgressing the sabbatical year that Israel was carried captive, which he thinks is intimated in Ch2 36:21; and that the seventy years' captivity in Babylon were for the seventy sabbatical years that had been neglected.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv21–22 For three years - Not compleatly, but in great…
For three years - Not compleatly, but in great part, namely, for that part of the 6th year which was between the beginning of harvest and the beginning of the 7th year, for the whole 7th year, and for that part of the 8th year which was before the harvest, which reached almost until the beginning of the ninth year. This is added to shew the equity of this command. As God would hereby try their faith and obedience, so he gave them an eminent proof of his own exact providence and tender care over them in making provisions suitable to their necessities.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v20 Verse 20. What shall we eat the seventh year?]…
Verse 20. What shall we eat the seventh year?] A very natural question, which could only be laid at rest by the sovereign promise in the next verse: I will COMMAND my BLESSING upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for THREE YEARS. See Clarke on Le 25:2.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v21 Lev 25:21. For three years — Not completely, but…
Lev 25:21. For three years — Not completely, but in great part; namely, for that part of the sixth year which was between the beginning of the harvest and the beginning of the seventh year, for the whole seventh year, and for that part of the eighth year which was before the harvest, which reached almost until the beginning of the ninth year. This is added to show the equity of this command. As God would hereby try their faith and obedience, so he gave them an evident proof of his own exact providence and tender care over them in making provisions suitable to their necessities.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v18 In safety - i. e., secure from famine, Lev…
In safety - i. e., secure from famine, Lev 26:5; Deu 12:10.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv21–22 Three years. After the harvest of the sixth year…
Three years. After the harvest of the sixth year was gotten in, the land rested from September to September, the beginning of the 8th year, when it was tilled again. Nothing would be ripe till about March; yet the harvest of the 6th year would suffice to furnish food till that time, or even for a year longer, as it would be requisite, when the year of jubilee succeeded that of rest, ver. 8. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v21 I will command my blessing upon you in the…
I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years, &c.--A provision was made, by the special interposition of God, to supply the deficiency of food which would otherwise have resulted from the suspension of all labor during the sabbatic year. The sixth year was to yield a miraculous supply for three continuous years. And the remark is applicable to the year of Jubilee as well as the sabbatic year. (See allusions to this extraordinary provision in Kg2 19:29; Isa 37:30). None but a legislator who was conscious of acting under divine authority would have staked his character on so singular an enactment as that of the sabbatic year; and none but a people who had witnessed the fulfilment of the divine promise would have been induced to suspend their agricultural preparations on a recurrence of a periodical Jubilee.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv18, 20, 21 ADDITIONAL LEGISLATION RESPECTING THE SABBATICAL YEAR, Lev_25:18-22.
ADDITIONAL LEGISLATION RESPECTING THE SABBATICAL YEAR, Lev_25:18-22.
These verses should be read in connexion with vers. 1-7, since they chiefly relate to the same topic. They seem to be misplaced in their present position, amid precepts relating to the jubilee, though they are not in reality. The purport of Lev_25:18-19 is, that safety and temporal prosperity in the land of promise hinge on obedience to the declared will of Jehovah.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v18 18–22. A hortatory addition, relating to the sabbatical year…
18–22. A hortatory addition, relating to the sabbatical year and interrupting the Jubile regulations. It is thus clearly out of place, and should properly follow Lev_25:7. Its tone is that of H, and is in accord with such hortatory passages as Lev_18:25 ff., Lev_20:22 f., Lev_26:3 ff. It may be conjectured that the redactor’s reason for placing it here out of its proper context was to indicate that it applies to the regulations for the Jubile as well as the sabbatical year.
The mention of the ninth year (Lev_25:22), combined with the words ‘three years’ (Lev_25:21), seems to point to the view (see introd. note to ch.) that the Jubile year was really the 50th, not the 49th, and that thus the land on such occasions was to have two years (the seventh and eighth) of rest. On the other hand, Lev_25:20 has ‘the seventh year’ (not the seventh and eighth), and Lev_25:22 ‘ye shall sow the eighth year’ (not the ninth). It is probable that the redactor, with the object mentioned above, introduced into Lev_25:22 mention of the ninth year. So Dillm. who further makes the ‘three years,’ originally meaning the sixth, seventh, and eighth (i.e. the produce of the sixth year was to last abnormally till the harvest time of that sowed in the earlier part of the eighth instead of the seventh year) to have been taken by the redactor to mean seventh, eighth, and ninth, so as to fall in with his view that the Jubile followed, instead of coinciding with, the last year of the cycle of seven sabbatical years.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv18, 20, 21, 22 (18) Wherefore ye shall do my statutes.—Better, And ye…
(18) Wherefore ye shall do my statutes.—Better, And ye shall do . . . that is, the above named statutes and ordinances respecting the sabbatical year and the jubile, which required great sacrifices.
Ye shall dwell in the land in safety.—As God is Israel’s strong tower and wall of defence, it is by keeping His commandments that the Israelites will enjoy the security which other nations endeavour to obtain by great labour and mighty armies.
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And the land . . . her fruit.—He, moreover, who has given Israel these statutes, also controls the operations of nature. Hence, though the observance of His laws would necessitate the abstention from cultivating the soil, the Lord will cause the land to yield an abundant harvest which will richly supply all their wants, and they will safely and quietly dwell therein without being compelled to make raids upon their neighbours for food, or surrender themselves to their enemies for want of provision (1Ma_6:49; 1Ma_6:53; Josephus, Antt. xiv. 16, § 2; xv. :1, § 2).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv18–19 Vers. 18-22. only the year of jubilee, but the…
Vers. 18-22. only the year of jubilee, but the sabbatical year also, commenced in the autumn, when the farmers first began to sow for the coming year; so that the sowing was suspended from the autumn of the sixth year till the autumn of the seventh, and even till the autumn of the eighth whenever the jubilee year came round, in which case both sowing and reaping were omitted for two years in succession, and consequently the produce of the sixth year, which was harvested in the seventh month of that year, must have sufficed for three years, not merely till the sowing in the autumn of the eighth or fiftieth year, but till the harvest of the ninth or fifty-first year, as the Talmud and rabbins of every age have understood the law" (Keil). The question, What shall we eat? would present itself with double force when the sabbatical and the jubilee years came together. It and the answer to it therefore properly follow on the institution of the jubilee, instead of preceding it, as Ewald, Knobcl, and others demand that it should do.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv18, 20 obey my decrees, keep my laws, and carry them…
obey my decrees, keep my laws, and carry them out
All of these phrases mean basically the same thing. They emphasize that the people must obey everything Yahweh says. (See: Parallelism)
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you will eat your fill
This means that they would eat enough until their stomach was full. AT: "you will eat till you are full" or "you will eat plenty" (See: Idiom)
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obey
decree
law
life
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