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In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/leviticus/25.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/25.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/leviticus/25.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat <i>yet</i> of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat <i>of</i> the old <i>store</i>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/leviticus/25.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat <i>of</i> the old <i>harvest</i>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/leviticus/25.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the produce, eating <i>the old</i> until the ninth year when its produce comes in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/leviticus/25.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/leviticus/25.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating <i>the old</i> until the ninth year when its crop comes in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/leviticus/25.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />So you shall sow the eighth year and eat old things from that produce, eating <i>the old</i> until the ninth year when its produce comes in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/leviticus/25.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crops, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/leviticus/25.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/leviticus/25.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/leviticus/25.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, ye shall eat the old store.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/leviticus/25.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />In the eighth year you will live on what you harvested in the sixth year, but in the ninth year you will eat what you plant and harvest in the eighth year. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/leviticus/25.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until her fruits come in, ye shall eat the old store.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/leviticus/25.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />You will plant [again] in the eighth year but live on what the land already produced. You will eat it, even in the ninth year, until the land produces more.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/leviticus/25.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating what you harvested during the sixth year, and you will have enough to eat until the crops you plant that year are harvested. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/leviticus/25.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />That way, you are to sow in the eighth year, eating the produce from the old harvest. Until the ninth year when its produce comes in, you'll eat from the old harvest."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/leviticus/25.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year?s harvest comes in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/leviticus/25.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />and you may sow the eighth year and eat from that sixth year's produce--old produce. Until you bring in the ninth year's produce, you may eat old produce.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/leviticus/25.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/leviticus/25.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of old fruit until the ninth year; until its fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/leviticus/25.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/leviticus/25.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and you have sown [in] the eighth year, and have eaten of the old increase; you eat the old until the ninth year, until the coming in of its increase.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/leviticus/25.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and ye have sown the eighth year, and have eaten of the old increase; until the ninth year, until the coming in of its increase, ye do eat the old.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/leviticus/25.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And ye sowed the eighth year, and ate from the old produce till the ninth year; till its produce came in ye shall eat the old.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/leviticus/25.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old store. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/leviticus/25.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And in the eighth year you shall sow, but you shall eat from the old produce, until the ninth year, until what is new matures, you shall eat what is old.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/leviticus/25.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />and when you sow in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the old crop; even into the ninth year, until the crop comes in, you will still be eating from the old crop. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/25.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the old crop; until the ninth year, when its produce comes in, you shall eat the old.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/leviticus/25.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat yet of old produce until the ninth year; until the new produce comes in, you shall eat of the old produce.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/leviticus/25.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And you shall sow in the eighth year and you shall eat of old crops until the ninth year; until the crop comes in, be eating the old.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/leviticus/25.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the produce, the old store; until the ninth year, until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old store.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/leviticus/25.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And ye shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old fruits till the ninth year: until its fruit come, ye shall eat old fruits of the old.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/25-22.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NWs_V1RyMFo?start=6799" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/25.htm">The Blessing of Obedience</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">21</span>But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years. <span class="reftext">22</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/2232.htm" title="2232: ū·zə·ra‘·tem (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2mp) -- To sow, scatter seed. A primitive root; to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify.">While you are sowing</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’êṯ (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8066.htm" title="8066: haš·šə·mî·niṯ (Art:: Number-ofs) -- Eighth (an ord. number). From shmoneh; eight.">in the eighth</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: haš·šā·nāh (Art:: N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">year,</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: wa·’ă·ḵal·tem (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">you will be eating</a> <a href="/hebrew/4480.htm" title="4480: min- (Prep) -- From. Or minniy; or minney; for men; properly, a part of; hence, from or out of in many senses.">from</a> <a href="/hebrew/3465.htm" title="3465: yā·šān (Adj-ms) -- From yashen; old.">the previous</a> <a href="/hebrew/8393.htm" title="8393: hat·tə·ḇū·’āh (Art:: N-fs) -- Product, revenue. From bow'; income, i.e. Produce.">harvest,</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: tō·ḵə·lū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3465.htm" title="3465: yā·šān (Adj-ms) -- From yashen; old."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">until</a> <a href="/hebrew/8671.htm" title="8671: hat·tə·šî·‘iṯ (Art:: Number-ofs) -- Ninth (an ord. number). Ord. From tesha'; ninth.">the ninth</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: haš·šā·nāh (Art:: N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">year’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ- (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8393.htm" title="8393: tə·ḇū·’ā·ṯāh (N-fsc:: 3fs) -- Product, revenue. From bow'; income, i.e. Produce.">harvest</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: bō·w (V-Qal-Inf) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">comes in.</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/23-10.htm">Exodus 23:10-11</a></span><br />For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce, / but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-1.htm">Deuteronomy 15:1-2</a></span><br />At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. / This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/31-10.htm">Deuteronomy 31:10-12</a></span><br />Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles, / when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel. / Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-21.htm">2 Chronicles 36:21</a></span><br />So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/37-30.htm">Isaiah 37:30</a></span><br />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 year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/34-14.htm">Jeremiah 34:14</a></span><br />Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/46-17.htm">Ezekiel 46:17</a></span><br />But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/10-31.htm">Nehemiah 10:31</a></span><br />When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow and will cancel every debt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/8-22.htm">Genesis 8:22</a></span><br />As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/41-47.htm">Genesis 41:47-49</a></span><br />During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully. / During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it. / So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/6-25.htm">Matthew 6:25-34</a></span><br />Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? / Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? / Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/12-22.htm">Luke 12:22-31</a></span><br />Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. / For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. / Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds! ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/13-23.htm">Matthew 13:23</a></span><br />But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/4-8.htm">Mark 4:8</a></span><br />Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprouted, grew up, and produced a crop—one bearing thirtyfold, another sixtyfold, and another a hundredfold.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/8-15.htm">Luke 8:15</a></span><br />But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And you shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in you shall eat of the old store.</p><p class="hdg">eighth</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/19-29.htm">2 Kings 19:29</a></b></br> And this <i>shall be</i> a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/37-30.htm">Isaiah 37:30</a></b></br> And this <i>shall be</i> a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat <i>this</i> year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.</p><p class="hdg">old fruit</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joshua/5-11.htm">Joshua 5:11,12</a></b></br> And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched <i>corn</i> in the selfsame day… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/15-25.htm">Continue</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-21.htm">Crop</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-20.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-19.htm">Eaten</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-16.htm">Eating</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-39.htm">Eighth</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-20.htm">Food</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-21.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-16.htm">Fruits</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-20.htm">Harvest</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-21.htm">Increase</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-32.htm">Ninth</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-20.htm">Plant</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-21.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-20.htm">Seed</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-20.htm">Sow</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-37.htm">Sowing</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-37.htm">Sown</a> <a href="/genesis/41-56.htm">Store</a> <a href="/colossians/2-3.htm">Stores</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Continue</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/22-9.htm">Crop</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-5.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-26.htm">Eaten</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-10.htm">Eating</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-38.htm">Eighth</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-37.htm">Food</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-4.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-20.htm">Fruits</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-5.htm">Harvest</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-36.htm">Increase</a> <a href="/2_kings/15-13.htm">Ninth</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-16.htm">Plant</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-4.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-5.htm">Seed</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-16.htm">Sow</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-5.htm">Sowing</a> <a href="/numbers/5-28.htm">Sown</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-10.htm">Store</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-10.htm">Stores</a><div class="vheading2">Leviticus 25</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/25-1.htm">the Sabbath of the seventh year</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/25-8.htm">The jubilee in the fiftieth year</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/25-14.htm">Of oppression</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/25-18.htm">A blessing of obedience</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/25-23.htm">The redemption of land</a></span><br><span class="reftext">29. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/25-29.htm">Of houses</a></span><br><span class="reftext">35. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Compassion to the poor</a></span><br><span class="reftext">39. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/25-39.htm">The usage of bondmen</a></span><br><span class="reftext">47. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/25-47.htm">The redemption of servants</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The eighth year follows the Sabbath year, a year of rest for the land as commanded in <a href="/leviticus/25-4.htm">Leviticus 25:4</a>. This practice underscores the importance of trusting in God's provision, as the Israelites were to refrain from sowing and reaping during the seventh year. The eighth year marks the resumption of agricultural activities, symbolizing renewal and faith in God's continued sustenance.<p><b>you will be eating from the previous harvest</b><br>This highlights God's promise of provision. During the Sabbath year, the Israelites were not to plant or harvest, yet God assured them that the sixth year's yield would be abundant enough to sustain them through the seventh year and into the eighth. This miraculous provision is reminiscent of the manna provided in the wilderness (Exodus 16), where God supplied the Israelites' needs despite natural limitations. It emphasizes reliance on divine provision rather than human effort.<p><b>until the ninth year’s harvest comes in</b><br>The ninth year represents the completion of a cycle and the return to normal agricultural practices. The phrase indicates a period of transition where the Israelites continue to depend on God's provision until the new harvest is ready. This cycle of dependence and renewal can be seen as a type of Christ, who provides spiritual sustenance and rest (<a href="/matthew/11-28.htm">Matthew 11:28-30</a>). The concept of waiting for the harvest also connects to the New Testament theme of spiritual sowing and reaping (<a href="/galatians/6-9.htm">Galatians 6:9</a>), encouraging believers to trust in God's timing and provision.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The prophet and leader of the Israelites, who received the laws from God on Mount Sinai, including the instructions in Leviticus.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The chosen people of God, to whom the laws in Leviticus were given. They were to observe the Sabbatical year as part of their covenant with God.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/s/sabbatical_year.htm">Sabbatical Year (Shmita)</a></b><br>A year of rest for the land observed every seventh year, during which the Israelites were commanded not to sow or reap.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/m/mount_sinai.htm">Mount Sinai</a></b><br>The place where God gave Moses the laws, including the instructions for the Sabbatical year.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/p/promised_land.htm">Promised Land</a></b><br>The land of Canaan, which the Israelites were to enter and where they were to observe these laws.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_provision.htm">Trust in God's Provision</a></b><br>The command to observe the Sabbatical year required the Israelites to trust that God would provide for their needs even when they did not sow or reap. This teaches us to rely on God's provision in our lives, trusting that He will meet our needs.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/o/obedience_to_god's_commands.htm">Obedience to God's Commands</a></b><br>Observing the Sabbatical year was an act of obedience. It reminds us of the importance of following God's commands, even when it requires faith and patience.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/rest_and_renewal.htm">Rest and Renewal</a></b><br>The Sabbatical year provided rest for the land and the people. This principle of rest is important for our spiritual and physical well-being, encouraging us to find regular times for rest and renewal.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_and_sharing.htm">Community and Sharing</a></b><br>The Sabbatical year emphasized community support, as the Israelites were to share the produce that grew naturally. This teaches us the value of community and generosity.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_leviticus_25.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Leviticus 25</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what's_the_shemitah_year's_purpose.htm">What is the purpose of the Shemitah year?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_can_unplanted_land_feed_for_3_years.htm">How is it scientifically plausible (Lev 25:20-22) that the land left unplanted still provides enough food for three years?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_lev._22_10_conflict_with_inclusivity.htm">In Leviticus 22:10, does the exclusion of non-priests from eating sacred offerings conflict with later biblical themes of inclusivity?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_exodus_23_10-11_sabbatical_rest_proven.htm">Does the sabbatical land rest of Exodus 23:10-11 have any archaeological or historical substantiation of its widespread observance?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/25.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(22) <span class= "bld">And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">And when ye shall sow in the eighth year, ye shall yet eat of the old produce, </span>that is, when at the termination of the sabbatical year the Israelites resume the cultivation of the soil in the eighth year, the abundant crop of the sixth year--the year preceding the sabbatical year--will not only suffice for this year, but will reach till that part of the ninth year when the crops sown in the eighth are ripe and gathered in. Accordingly, the sixth year's harvest will suffice till the Feast of Tabernacles, or till Tishri 1 of the ninth year.<p><span class= "bld">Until her fruits come in.--</span>Better, <span class= "ital">until its produce come in, </span>that is, the produce of the eighth <span class= "bld">year </span>which was gathered in the ninth. <a href="/leviticus/25-20.htm" title="And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:">Leviticus 25:20</a>, therefore, which states the anticipated question, and <a href="/context/leviticus/25-21.htm" title="Then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.">Leviticus 25:21-22</a>, which contain the reply, ought properly to follow immediately after <a href="/leviticus/25-7.htm" title="And for your cattle, and for the beast that are in your land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.">Leviticus 25:7</a>, since they meet the difficulty arising from the rest of the land during the sabbatical year. The redactor of Leviticus may, however, have inserted <a href="/context/leviticus/25-20.htm" title="And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:">Leviticus 25:20-22</a> here because the difficulty raised in them, and the reply given to the anticipated question, apply equally to the jubile year. The special Divine interposition which is here promised to meet the requirements of one year's cessation from cultivating the land will, as a matter of course, be all the more readily vouchsafed when the Israelites will have to exercise greater obedience and faith in the jubile, and abstain two successive years from tilling the ground.<p><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/leviticus/25-22.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">While you are sowing</span><br /><span class="heb">וּזְרַעְתֶּ֗ם</span> <span class="translit">(ū·zə·ra‘·tem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2232.htm">Strong's 2232: </a> </span><span class="str2">To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in the eighth</span><br /><span class="heb">הַשְּׁמִינִ֔ת</span> <span class="translit">(haš·šə·mî·niṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Number - ordinal feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8066.htm">Strong's 8066: </a> </span><span class="str2">Eighth (an ordinal number)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">year,</span><br /><span class="heb">הַשָּׁנָ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(haš·šā·nāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> </span><span class="str2">A year</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you will be eating</span><br /><span class="heb">וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(wa·’ă·ḵal·tem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from</span><br /><span class="heb">מִן־</span> <span class="translit">(min-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4480.htm">Strong's 4480: </a> </span><span class="str2">A part of, from, out of</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the previous</span><br /><span class="heb">יָשָׁ֑ן</span> <span class="translit">(yā·šān)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3465.htm">Strong's 3465: </a> </span><span class="str2">Old</span><br /><br /><span class="word">harvest</span><br /><span class="heb">הַתְּבוּאָ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(hat·tə·ḇū·’āh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8393.htm">Strong's 8393: </a> </span><span class="str2">Product, revenue</span><br /><br /><span class="word">until</span><br /><span class="heb">עַ֣ד ׀</span> <span class="translit">(‘aḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> </span><span class="str2">As far as, even to, up to, until, while</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the ninth</span><br /><span class="heb">הַתְּשִׁיעִ֗ת</span> <span class="translit">(hat·tə·šî·‘iṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Number - ordinal feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8671.htm">Strong's 8671: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ninth (an ordinal number)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">year,</span><br /><span class="heb">הַשָּׁנָ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(haš·šā·nāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> </span><span class="str2">A year</span><br /><br /><span class="word">when</span><br /><span class="heb">עַד־</span> <span class="translit">(‘aḏ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> </span><span class="str2">As far as, even to, up to, until, while</span><br /><br /><span class="word">its harvest</span><br /><span class="heb">תְּב֣וּאָתָ֔הּ</span> <span class="translit">(tə·ḇū·’ā·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8393.htm">Strong's 8393: </a> </span><span class="str2">Product, revenue</span><br /><br /><span class="word">comes in.</span><br /><span class="heb">בּוֹא֙</span> <span class="translit">(bō·w)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come in, come, go in, go</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/25-22.htm">Leviticus 25:22 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/25-22.htm">Leviticus 25:22 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/25-22.htm">Leviticus 25:22 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/25-22.htm">Leviticus 25:22 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/25-22.htm">Leviticus 25:22 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/25-22.htm">Leviticus 25:22 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/25-22.htm">Leviticus 25:22 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/25-22.htm">Leviticus 25:22 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/25-22.htm">Leviticus 25:22 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/leviticus/25-22.htm">Leviticus 25:22 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/leviticus/25-22.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 25:22 You shall sow the eighth year (Le Lv Lev.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/leviticus/25-21.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 25:21"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 25:21" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/leviticus/25-23.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 25:23"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 25:23" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>