Leviticus 25:21
19 Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.
20 Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’
But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.
22 While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.
23 The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.
- KJV
- Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
- WEB
- then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.
- ASV
- then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
- DARBY
- then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, that it may bring forth produce for three years;
- BLB
- And I will command My blessing on you⁺ in the sixth year, and it will bring forth enough produce for three years.
- ÅB
- da vil jeg sende min velsignelse over dere i det sjette år, så det gir grøde for tre år.
- OTB
- Jeg vil befale min velsignelse for dere i det sjette året, slik at landet gir nok for tre år.
- B1930
- da vil jeg sende min velsignelse over eder i det sjette år, så det gir grøde for tre år.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 28:8
The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
Read in contextProverbs 10:22
The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.
Read in context2 Corinthians 9:10
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.
Read in contextPsalms 133:3
It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
Read in contextGenesis 41:47
During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully.
Read in contextGenesis 26:12
Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:3
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
Read in contextExodus 16:29
Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”
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