Leviticus 25:7
in Leviticus 25and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.
KJV
And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
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This verse in Leviticus 25
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
the Sabbath year shall be food for you
on Leviticus 25:6-7
The fallow year opens the field to everyone standing on it. The owner, his servants, his hired man, the stranger, his cattle and the wild beasts all eat from the same ground on the same terms.
This site's exposition
and the wild animals in your land
The list of verse 6 ends with animals nobody owns. Exodus 23:11 had named the poor and the beasts as the ones the fallow year was for. Clement of Alexandria read the law as inviting the poor to use without fear the crops that grow by God's grace.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land,....
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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְלִ֨בְהֶמְתְּךָ֔ | velivhemtekha | and to livestock your | H929 → | 190 times |
| וְלַֽחַיָּ֖ה | velachaiyah | and to the animal[s] | H2416 → | 498 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| בְּאַרְצֶ֑ךָ | beartzekha | [is] in land your | H776 → | 2504 times |
| תִּהְיֶ֥ה | tihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| כָל־ | khol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| תְּבוּאָתָ֖הּ | tevuatah | produce its | H8393 → | 42 times |
| לֶאֱכֹֽל׃ ס | leekhol | to eat | H398 → | 810 times |
וְלִ֨בְהֶמְתְּךָ֔and to livestock your
velivhemtekhaH929 →190 times
וְלַֽחַיָּ֖הand to the animal[s]
velachaiyahH2416 →498 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
בְּאַרְצֶ֑ךָ[is] in land your
beartzekhaH776 →2504 times
תִּהְיֶ֥הit will be
tihyehH1961 →3559 times
כָל־all
khol-H3605 →5413 times
תְּבוּאָתָ֖הּproduce its
tevuatahH8393 →42 times
לֶאֱכֹֽל׃ סto eat
leekholH398 →810 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata Book 2; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.