Leviticus 25:21
in Leviticus 25But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
KJV
Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
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This verse in Leviticus 25
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
None but a legislator who was conscious of acting under divine authority would have staked his character on so singular an enactment as that of the sabbatic year; and none but a people who had witnessed the fulfilment of the divine promise would have been induced to suspend their agricultural preparations on a recurrence of a periodical Jubilee.
This site's exposition
What shall we eat the seventh year
on Leviticus 25:20-22
The text raises the objection a farmer would raise and answers it in his own words. A blessing on the sixth year is promised to bring fruit for three years, so obedience in the seventh rests on a harvest already in the barn. Leviticus 26:34 and 26:35 say what happens where that trust fails, that the land will enjoy her sabbaths while her people are elsewhere, and 2 Chronicles 36:21 counts the seventy years of exile on exactly that reckoning.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
There is nothing lost by faith and self-denial in our obedience. 23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-run:37w-of-49
Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year,....
That every fiftieth year should be a year of jubilee, that is, 1. A year of release of debts and mortgages, and return to the possession of their alienated lands,
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְצִוִּ֤יתִי | vetziviti | and I will command | H6680 → | 494 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בִּרְכָתִי֙ | birkhati | blessing my | H1293 → | |
| לָכֶ֔ם | lakhem | for <the> you | ||
| בַּשָּׁנָ֖ה | bashanah | in the year | H8141 → | 877 times |
| הַשִּׁשִּׁ֑ית | hashishit | <the> sixth | H8345 → | |
| וְעָשָׂת֙ | veasat | and it will make | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַתְּבוּאָ֔ה | hatevuah | the produce | H8393 → | 42 times |
| לִשְׁלֹ֖שׁ | lishlosh | for [the] three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| הַשָּׁנִֽים׃ | hashanim | the years | H8141 → | 877 times |
וְצִוִּ֤יתִיand I will command
vetzivitiH6680 →494 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
בִּרְכָתִי֙blessing my
birkhatiH1293 →
לָכֶ֔םfor <the> you
lakhem
בַּשָּׁנָ֖הin the year
bashanahH8141 →877 times
הַשִּׁשִּׁ֑ית<the> sixth
hashishitH8345 →
וְעָשָׂת֙and it will make
veasatH6213 →2628 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַתְּבוּאָ֔הthe produce
hatevuahH8393 →42 times
לִשְׁלֹ֖שׁfor [the] three
lishloshH7969 →432 times
הַשָּׁנִֽים׃the years
hashanimH8141 →877 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.
it leads to
- Genesis 26:12
Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 107:38
He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
- 1 Samuel 2:7–8
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
- Genesis 24:35
“The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
- Genesis 12:2
I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
- Genesis 26:12
Through
2 Corinthians 9:10Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.
it leads to
- Isaiah 55:10
For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
- Hosea 10:12
Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
- 2 Corinthians 9:6
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
- Isaiah 55:10
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.