Leviticus 25:5
in Leviticus 25You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather: it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
KJV
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
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This verse in Leviticus 25
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Vine undressed - That is, “unpruned”; literally “Nazarite vine”, the figure being taken from the unshorn locks of the Nazarite. Num 6:5.
This site's exposition
Six years thou shalt sow thy field
on Leviticus 25:3-5
Six years of sowing and pruning, and a seventh with neither. The phrase used of the weekly rest at Leviticus 23:3, a sabbath of rest, is used here of a year, so the week that governs a man is laid on his field. What comes up on its own that year is left standing, which means the owner keeps his hands off a crop he did nothing to plant.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap,....
In this God expected from them extraordinary instances of faith and obedience, and they might expect from God extraordinary instances of power and goodness in providing for them,
And, as the fruits of this sabbath of the land were enjoyed in common, so the salvation wrought out by Christ is a common salvation; and this sabbatical year seems to have been revived in the Christian church, when the believers had all things common, Acts ii.
The words behind it
14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֵ֣ת | ʾet | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| סְפִ֤יחַ | sefiach | [the] self-sown grain of | H5599 → | |
| קְצִֽירְךָ֙ | ketzirecha | harvest your | H7105 → | 54 times |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תִקְצ֔וֹר | tiktzor | you will harvest | H7114 → | 49 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עִנְּבֵ֥י | ʾinevei | [the] grapes | H6025 → | |
| נְזִירֶ֖ךָ | nezirekha | untrimmed vines your | H5139 → | |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תִבְצֹ֑ר | tivtzor | you will gather grapes | H1219 → | |
| שְׁנַ֥ת | shenat | a year of | H8141 → | 877 times |
| שַׁבָּת֖וֹן | shabaton | sabbath observance | H7677 → | 11 times |
| יִהְיֶ֥ה | yihyeh | it will belong | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לָאָֽרֶץ׃ | laaretz | to the land | H776 → | 2504 times |
אֵ֣ת<obj.>
ʾetH853 →10935 times
סְפִ֤יחַ[the] self-sown grain of
sefiachH5599 →
קְצִֽירְךָ֙harvest your
ketzirechaH7105 →54 times
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תִקְצ֔וֹרyou will harvest
tiktzorH7114 →49 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
עִנְּבֵ֥י[the] grapes
ʾineveiH6025 →
נְזִירֶ֖ךָuntrimmed vines your
nezirekhaH5139 →
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תִבְצֹ֑רyou will gather grapes
tivtzorH1219 →
שְׁנַ֥תa year of
shenatH8141 →877 times
שַׁבָּת֖וֹןsabbath observance
shabatonH7677 →11 times
יִהְיֶ֥הit will belong
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
לָאָֽרֶץ׃to the land
laaretzH776 →2504 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
2 Kings 19:29And 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…
it leads to
- Exodus 3:12
“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Leviticus 25:20–22
Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’
- 2 Kings 20:8–9
Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
- 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…
- Luke 2:12
And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
- Exodus 3:12
Through
Isaiah 37:30And 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…
it leads to
- 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…
- Leviticus 25:4–5
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.
- 1 Kings 13:3–5
That day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “The LORD has spoken this sign: ‘Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.’”
- 2 Kings 19:29
Where this verse is studied
About Leviticus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.