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Leviticus 25:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;” "
Leviticus 25:20
Verse in Context
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18 “‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
19 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
20 If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”
21 then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.
22 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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Leviticus 25:1
"The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,"
Leviticus 25:2
"“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD."
Leviticus 25:3
"You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;"
Leviticus 25:4
"but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard."
Leviticus 25:5
"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."
Leviticus 25:6
"The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you."
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