Exodus 23:11 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 23:11

but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

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ASV

but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

KJV

But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But it appears that even then there was a spontaneous produce which the poor were permitted freely to gather for their use, and the beasts driven out fed on the remainder, the owners of fields not being allowed to reap or collect the fruits of the vineyard or oliveyard during the course of this sabbatical year.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהַשְּׁבִיעִ֞ת	ve.ha.she.vi.'It	and the seventh [year]	H7637 →
תִּשְׁמְטֶ֣נָּה	tish.me.Te.nah	you will let rest it	H8058 →
וּנְטַשְׁתָּ֗הּ	u.ne.tash.Tah	and you will leave fallow it	H5203 →
וְאָֽכְלוּ֙	ve.'a.khe.Lu	and they will eat	H398 →
אֶבְיֹנֵ֣י	'ev.yo.Nei	[the] needy [people] of	H34 →
עַמֶּ֔ךָ	'a.Me.kha	people your	H5971 →
וְיִתְרָ֕ם	ve.yit.Ram	and excess their	H3499 →
תֹּאכַ֖ל	to.Khal	it will eat	H398 →
חַיַּ֣ת	chai.Yat	[the] animal[s] of	H2416 →
הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה	ha.sa.Deh	the field	H7704 →
כֵּֽן־	ken-	thus	H3651 →
תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה	ta.'a.Seh	you will do	H6213 →
לְכַרְמְךָ֖	le.khar.me.Kha	to vineyard your	H3754 →
לְזֵיתֶֽךָ׃	le.zei.Te.kha	to olive grove your	H2132 →

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Through
Leviticus 25:20
Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’
leads to
- Luke 12:29
  And do not be concerned about what you will eat or drink. Do not worry about it.
- Leviticus 25:4
  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.
- Philippians 4:6
  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
- Numbers 11:13
  Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
- Psalms 78:19–20
  They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
Through
Leviticus 25:22
While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.
leads to
- Leviticus 26:10
  You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
- 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…
- 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…

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