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Leviticus 25:5

3 For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

4 But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

6 Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,

7 and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.
KJV
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
WEB
What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
ASV
That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather: it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
DARBY
That which springeth up from the scattered seed of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thine undressed vines thou shalt not gather: a year of rest shall it be for the land.
BLB
What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your untended vine [you shall] not gather. It is a year of complete rest for the land.
ÅB
Det som vokser av seg selv etter at du har høstet, skal du ikke skjære, og druene på ditt ustelte vintre skal du ikke sanke; det skal være et sabbatsår for landet.
OTB
Du skal ikke høste det som vokser av seg selv eller samle druene fra dine utrimmede vinstokker; landet skal ha et hvileår.
B1930
Det som vokser av sig selv efterat du har høstet, skal du ikke skjære, og druene på ditt ustelte vintre skal du ikke sanke; det skal være et sabbatsår for landet.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 2 Kings 19:29

    And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

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  • Isaiah 37:30

    And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

    Read in context