Focused Passage

Leviticus 25:18-22

Sabbath for the Land, Jubilee Release, and the LORD's Ownership of Israel

The LORD speaks to Moses at Mount Sinai and commands that the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD every seventh year. After seven Sabbath years, the fiftieth year is consecrated as Jubilee, announced with the trumpet on the Day of Atonement. Property is returned, liberty is proclaimed, and economic transactions are governed by the number of harvest years remaining until Jubilee. The chapter then provides laws for trusting the LORD's provision during the Sabbath year, redeeming land, selling houses, protecting Levitical towns, helping poor Israelites, prohibiting interest exploitation, regulating Israelite servitude, and redeeming Israelites sold to resident foreigners. The chapter closes by grounding everything in the exodus: Israelites belong to the LORD as His servants.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

18You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.

19Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.

20Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’

21But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.

22While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.

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References and Original Words

Verse 18

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 28BSB references Psalms 4:8Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 12:10Classic cross-references Leviticus 26:5Classic cross-references Jeremiah 23:6Classic cross-references Proverbs 1:33Classic cross-references

Original words

You are to keepוַעֲשִׂיתֶם֙H6213Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural-אֶת־H853Direct object markerMy statutesחֻקֹּתַ֔יH2708Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singularandוְאֶת־H853Conjunctive waw | Direct object markercarefullyתִּשְׁמְר֖וּH8104Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine pluralobserveוַעֲשִׂיתֶ֣םH6213Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine pluralMy judgmentsמִשְׁפָּטַ֥יH4941Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular-אֹתָ֑םH853Direct object marker | third person masculine pluralso that you may dwellוִֽישַׁבְתֶּ֥םH3427Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine pluralsecurelyלָבֶֽטַח׃H983Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singularinעַל־H5921Prepositionthe landהָאָ֖רֶץH776Article | Noun - feminine singular

Verse 19

Cross-references

Joel 2:26Classic cross-references Psalms 85:12Classic cross-references Leviticus 26:5Classic cross-references

Original words

Then the landהָאָ֙רֶץ֙H776Article | Noun - feminine singularwill yieldוְנָתְנָ֤הH5414Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singularits fruitפִּרְיָ֔הּH6529Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singularso that you can eatוַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖םH398Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine pluralyour fillלָשֹׂ֑בַעH7648Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singularand dwellוִֽישַׁבְתֶּ֥םH3427Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine pluralin safetyלָבֶ֖טַחH983Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singularin the landעָלֶֽיהָ׃H5921Preposition | third person feminine singular

Verse 20

Cross-references

Matthew 6:33Classic cross-references Matthew 6:31Classic cross-references 2 Kings 19:29Classic cross-references Leviticus 25:4Classic cross-references Luke 12:29Classic cross-references

Original words

Nowוְכִ֣יH3588Conjunctionyou may wonderתֹאמְר֔וּH559Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine pluralWhatמַה־H4100Interrogativewill we eatנֹּאכַ֤֖לH398Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common pluralin the seventhהַשְּׁבִיעִ֑תH7637Article | Number - ordinal feminine singularyearבַּשָּׁנָ֣הH8141Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singularifהֵ֚ןH2005Interjectionwe do notלֹ֣אH3808Adverb - Negative particlesowנִזְרָ֔עH2232Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural. . .וְלֹ֥אH3808Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particleor gatherנֶאֱסֹ֖ףH622Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural-אֶת־H853Direct object markerour produceתְּבוּאָתֵֽנוּ׃H8393Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural

Verse 21

Cross-references

Psalms 133:3Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 28:8Classic cross-references Proverbs 10:22Classic cross-references 2 Corinthians 9:10Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 28:3Classic cross-references

Original words

But I will sendוְצִוִּ֤יתִיH6680Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular-אֶת־H853Direct object markerMy blessingבִּרְכָתִי֙H1293Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singularupon youלָכֶ֔םPreposition | second person masculine pluralin the sixthהַשִּׁשִּׁ֑יתH8345Article | Number - ordinal feminine singularyearבַּשָּׁנָ֖הH8141Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singularso that [the land] will yieldוְעָשָׂת֙H6213Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular-אֶת־H853Direct object markera cropהַתְּבוּאָ֔הH8393Article | Noun - feminine singularsufficient for threeלִשְׁלֹ֖שׁH7969Preposition-l | Number - feminine singular constructyearsהַשָּׁנִֽים׃H8141Article | Noun - feminine plural

Verse 22

Cross-references

Leviticus 26:10Classic cross-references 2 Kings 19:29Classic cross-references

Original words

While you are sowingוּזְרַעְתֶּ֗םH2232Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural-אֵ֚תH853Direct object markerin the eighthהַשְּׁמִינִ֔תH8066Article | Number - ordinal feminine singularyearהַשָּׁנָ֣הH8141Article | Noun - feminine singularyou will be eatingוַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖םH398Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine pluralfromמִן־H4480Prepositionthe previousיָשָׁ֑ןH3465Adjective - masculine singularharvestהַתְּבוּאָ֣הH8393Article | Noun - feminine singular-תֹּאכְל֖וּH398Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural-יָשָֽׁן׃H3465Adjective - masculine singularuntilעַ֣ד׀H5704Prepositionthe ninthהַתְּשִׁיעִ֗תH8671Article | Number - ordinal feminine singularyear’sהַשָּׁנָ֣הH8141Article | Noun - feminine singular-עַד־H5704Prepositionharvestתְּב֣וּאָתָ֔הּH8393Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singularcomes inבּוֹא֙H935Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct

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