As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAs long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.
all the days of the desolation it resteth that which it hath not rested in your sabbaths in your dwelling on it.
All the days of the desolation it shall rest, [the days in] which it did not rest on your sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLeviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
- Author
- Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
- Date
- Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)