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Leviticus 25:3

in Leviticus 25

For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof;

KJV

Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

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This verse in Leviticus 25

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

For six years you may sow your field

on Leviticus 25:3-5

The phrase used of the weekly rest at Leviticus 23:3, a sabbath of rest, is used here of a year. The week that governs a man is laid on his field, and what grows on its own that year is left standing.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Six years thou shalt sow thy field,.... Under which is comprehended everything relating to agriculture, both before and after sowing, as dunging the land, ploughing and harrowing it, treading the corn, reaping and gathering it in; see Exo 23:10, and six years thou shall prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; which is not to be restrained to vineyards only, but to be extended to oliveyards, orchards and gardens, and to the planting and cultivating of them, and gathering in the fruits of them.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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,

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

It lay entirely fallow, and its spontaneous produce was the common property of the poor and the stranger, the cattle and game. This year of rest was to invigorate the productive powers of the land, as the weekly Sabbath was a refreshment to men and cattle.
Vineyard - Rather, fruit-garden. The Hebrew word is a general one for a plantation of fruit-trees.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • שֵׁ֤שׁsix

    sheshH8337 →216 times

  • שָׁנִים֙years

    shanimH8141 →877 times

  • תִּזְרַ֣עyou will sow

    tizra'H2232 →56 times

  • שָׂדֶ֔ךָfield your

    sadekhaH7704 →334 times

  • וְשֵׁ֥שׁand six

    vesheshH8337 →216 times

  • שָׁנִ֖יםyears

    shanimH8141 →877 times

  • תִּזְמֹ֣רyou will prune

    tizmorH2168 →

  • כַּרְמֶ֑ךָvineyard your

    karmekhaH3754 →92 times

  • וְאָסַפְתָּ֖and you will gather

    veasaftaH622 →200 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • תְּבוּאָתָֽהּ׃produce its

    tevuatahH8393 →42 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 23:10For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,3 works

The walk

1 stop

Each 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

    Exodus 23:10

    For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 25:3–4

      For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 25 →

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.

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