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

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

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?’

21 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.

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References and Original Words

Verse 18

Cross-references

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

Original words

You are to keep וַעֲשִׂיתֶם֙ H6213 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker My statutes חֻקֹּתַ֔י H2708 Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular and וְאֶת־ H853 Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker carefully תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ H8104 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural observe וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֣ם H6213 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural My judgments מִשְׁפָּטַ֥י H4941 Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular - אֹתָ֑ם H853 Direct object marker | third person masculine plural so that you may dwell וִֽישַׁבְתֶּ֥ם H3427 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural securely לָבֶֽטַח׃ H983 Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular in עַל־ H5921 Preposition the land הָאָ֖רֶץ H776 Article | Noun - feminine singular

Verse 19

Cross-references

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

Original words

Then the land הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ H776 Article | Noun - feminine singular will yield וְנָתְנָ֤ה H5414 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular its fruit פִּרְיָ֔הּ H6529 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular so that you can eat וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם H398 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural your fill לָשֹׂ֑בַע H7648 Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular and dwell וִֽישַׁבְתֶּ֥ם H3427 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural in safety לָבֶ֖טַח H983 Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular in the land עָלֶֽיהָ׃ H5921 Preposition | third person feminine singular

Verse 20

Cross-references

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

Original words

Now וְכִ֣י H3588 Conjunction you may wonder תֹאמְר֔וּ H559 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural What מַה־ H4100 Interrogative will we eat נֹּאכַ֤֖ל H398 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural in the seventh הַשְּׁבִיעִ֑ת H7637 Article | Number - ordinal feminine singular year בַּשָּׁנָ֣ה H8141 Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular if הֵ֚ן H2005 Interjection we do not לֹ֣א H3808 Adverb - Negative particle sow נִזְרָ֔ע H2232 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural . . . וְלֹ֥א H3808 Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle or gather נֶאֱסֹ֖ף H622 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker our produce תְּבוּאָתֵֽנוּ׃ H8393 Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural

Verse 21

Cross-references

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

Original words

But I will send וְצִוִּ֤יתִי H6680 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker My blessing בִּרְכָתִי֙ H1293 Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular upon you לָכֶ֔ם Preposition | second person masculine plural in the sixth הַשִּׁשִּׁ֑ית H8345 Article | Number - ordinal feminine singular year בַּשָּׁנָ֖ה H8141 Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular so that [the land] will yield וְעָשָׂת֙ H6213 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker a crop הַתְּבוּאָ֔ה H8393 Article | Noun - feminine singular sufficient for three לִשְׁלֹ֖שׁ H7969 Preposition-l | Number - feminine singular construct years הַשָּׁנִֽים׃ H8141 Article | Noun - feminine plural

Verse 22

Cross-references

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

Original words

While you are sowing וּזְרַעְתֶּ֗ם H2232 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural - אֵ֚ת H853 Direct object marker in the eighth הַשְּׁמִינִ֔ת H8066 Article | Number - ordinal feminine singular year הַשָּׁנָ֣ה H8141 Article | Noun - feminine singular you will be eating וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם H398 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural from מִן־ H4480 Preposition the previous יָשָׁ֑ן H3465 Adjective - masculine singular harvest הַתְּבוּאָ֣ה H8393 Article | Noun - feminine singular - תֹּאכְל֖וּ H398 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural - יָשָֽׁן׃ H3465 Adjective - masculine singular until עַ֣ד׀ H5704 Preposition the ninth הַתְּשִׁיעִ֗ת H8671 Article | Number - ordinal feminine singular year’s הַשָּׁנָ֣ה H8141 Article | Noun - feminine singular - עַד־ H5704 Preposition harvest תְּב֣וּאָתָ֔הּ H8393 Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular comes in בּוֹא֙ H935 Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct

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