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During that year you must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that grow on their own, and don’t gather the grapes from your unpruned vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/leviticus/25.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/25.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/leviticus/25.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather <i>the grapes</i> in it of thy vine undressed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/leviticus/25.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather <i>the grapes</i> of your untended vine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/leviticus/25.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor harvest its aftergrowth, nor gather grapes <i>from</i> its untrimmed vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/leviticus/25.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/leviticus/25.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in <i>from</i> its untrimmed vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/leviticus/25.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow; you shall not reap what grows of its own accord; you shall not gather in <i>from</i> its untrimmed vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/leviticus/25.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee for you; you shall not sow [seed], nor reap what reseeds itself, nor gather the grapes of the uncultivated vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/leviticus/25.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you are not to sow, reap what grows by itself, or harvest its untended vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/leviticus/25.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you are not to sow, reap what grows by itself, or harvest its untended vines. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/leviticus/25.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/leviticus/25.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />This is a year of complete celebration, so don't plant any seed or harvest what your fields or vineyards produce. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/leviticus/25.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/leviticus/25.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />That fiftieth year will be your jubilee year. Don't plant or harvest what grows by itself or pick grapes from the vines in the land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/leviticus/25.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />You shall not plant your fields or harvest the grain that grows by itself or gather the grapes in your unpruned vineyards. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/leviticus/25.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />The fiftieth year is to be a year of jubilee for you. You are not to sow or harvest the spilled kernels that grow of themselves or pick grapes from the untrimmed vines <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/leviticus/25.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/leviticus/25.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/leviticus/25.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/leviticus/25.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/leviticus/25.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/leviticus/25.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />It [is] a Jubilee, the fiftieth year, it is a year for you; you do not sow, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/leviticus/25.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> A jubilee it is, the fiftieth year, a year it is to you; ye sow not, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/leviticus/25.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />It a jubilee the year, the fiftieth year shall be to you: ye shall not sow and ye shall not reap its overflowings, and ye shall not gather its separations.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/leviticus/25.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Because it is the jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord, neither shall you gather the firstfruits of the vines, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/leviticus/25.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />for it is the Jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, and you shall not reap what grows in the field of its own accord, and you shall not gather the first-fruits of the crop,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/leviticus/25.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />This fiftieth year is your year of jubilee; you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the aftergrowth or pick the untrimmed vines,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/25.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you: you shall not sow, or reap the aftergrowth, or harvest the unpruned vines.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/leviticus/25.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you; you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes from the undressed vine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/leviticus/25.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And in the fiftieth year of years you shall have a restoration; you shall not sow your land and you shall not harvest its natural crop and you shall not pick its vine shoots.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/leviticus/25.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you; ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/leviticus/25.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />This is a jubilee of release, the year shall be to you the fiftieth year: ye shall not sow, nor reap the produce that comes of itself from the land, neither shall ye gather its dedicated fruits.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/25-11.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=6710" 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 Year of Jubilee</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">10</span>So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan. <span class="reftext">11</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/2572.htm" title="2572: ha·ḥă·miš·šîm (Art:: Number-cp) -- Fifty. Multiple of chamesh; fifty.">The fiftieth</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: šā·nāh (N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: šə·naṯ (N-fsc) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">year</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: tih·yeh (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">will be</a> <a href="/hebrew/3104.htm" title="3104: yō·w·ḇêl (N-ms) -- A ram, ram's horn (a wind instrument). ">a Jubilee</a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: hî (Pro-3fs) -- He, she, it. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·ḵem (Prep:: 2mp) -- ">for you;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">you are not</a> <a href="/hebrew/2232.htm" title="2232: ṯiz·rā·‘ū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To sow, scatter seed. A primitive root; to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify.">to sow the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">or</a> <a href="/hebrew/7114.htm" title="7114: ṯiq·ṣə·rū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To dock off, curtail, to harvest. A primitive root; to dock off, i.e. Curtail; especially to harvest.">reap</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (Prep) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5599.htm" title="5599: sə·p̄î·ḥe·hā (N-mpc:: 3fs) -- From caphach; something falling off, i.e. A self-sown crop; figuratively, a freshet.">its aftergrowth</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1219.htm" title="1219: ṯiḇ·ṣə·rū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To cut off, make inaccessible, enclose. A primitive root; to clip off; specifically to gather grapes; also to be isolated.">or harvest</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5139.htm" title="5139: nə·zi·re·hā (N-mpc:: 3fs) -- One consecrated, devoted. Or nazir; from nazar; separate, i.e. Consecrated; hence an unpruned vine.">the untended vines.</a> </span><span class="reftext">12</span>For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.…<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="/leviticus/25-4.htm">Leviticus 25:4</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/27-17.htm">Leviticus 27:17-18</a></span><br />If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation. / But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><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</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,<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="/2_kings/19-29.htm">2 Kings 19:29</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="/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="/luke/4-18.htm">Luke 4:18-19</a></span><br />“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, / to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/11-28.htm">Matthew 11:28-30</a></span><br />Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. / Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. / For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/4-9.htm">Hebrews 4:9-10</a></span><br />There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. / For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-21.htm">Romans 8:21</a></span><br />that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/5-1.htm">Galatians 5:1</a></span><br />It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you: you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of your vine undressed.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/27-17.htm">Leviticus 27:17</a></b></br> If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.</p><p class="hdg">ye shall</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Leviticus 25:5-7</a></b></br> That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: <i>for</i> it is a year of rest unto the land… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Aftergrowth</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-3.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Gather</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Grapes</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Groweth</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Grows</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Growth</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Harvest</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Itself</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-10.htm">Jubilee</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-23.htm">Planted</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Reap</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Seed</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Separated</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-4.htm">Sow</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Spontaneous</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Undressed</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Untended</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Untrimmed</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Vine</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Vines</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Aftergrowth</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-22.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-19.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-20.htm">Gather</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-5.htm">Grapes</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-23.htm">Groweth</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-49.htm">Grows</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/33-14.htm">Growth</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-20.htm">Harvest</a> <a href="/numbers/9-19.htm">Itself</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-13.htm">Jubilee</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-16.htm">Planted</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-19.htm">Reap</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-20.htm">Seed</a> <a href="/numbers/6-5.htm">Separated</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-20.htm">Sow</a> <a href="/philemon/1-14.htm">Spontaneous</a> <a href="/matthew/9-16.htm">Undressed</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Untended</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm">Untrimmed</a> <a href="/numbers/6-4.htm">Vine</a> <a href="/numbers/20-5.htm">Vines</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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Every fiftieth year, following seven cycles of seven years, was to be a time of liberation and celebration. This year was meant to reflect God's sovereignty and provision, reminding the Israelites that the land ultimately belonged to Him. The Jubilee year served as a reset for society, where debts were forgiven, and land was returned to its original owners, symbolizing spiritual renewal and social justice. This concept foreshadows the ultimate redemption and freedom found in Jesus Christ, who proclaimed the "year of the Lord's favor" (<a href="/luke/4-19.htm">Luke 4:19</a>).<p><b>you are not to sow the land</b><br>During the Jubilee year, the Israelites were commanded not to sow the land, emphasizing reliance on God's provision. This practice was a test of faith, as it required the people to trust that God would provide enough in the sixth year to sustain them through the seventh and into the Jubilee. This mirrors the Sabbath rest, where the land itself was given a break from cultivation, highlighting the importance of rest and trust in God's provision.<p><b>or reap its aftergrowth</b><br>The prohibition against reaping aftergrowth during the Jubilee year ensured that the land was not exploited for personal gain. This practice reinforced the idea that the land was a gift from God and was to be treated with respect and care. It also served as a reminder of the manna in the wilderness, where the Israelites were to gather only what they needed, teaching reliance on God's daily provision.<p><b>or harvest the untended vines.</b><br>The instruction not to harvest untended vines during the Jubilee year further emphasized the theme of rest and reliance on God. The untended vines, which grew without human intervention, symbolized God's natural provision. This command also prevented the accumulation of wealth and power, promoting equality and community welfare. The untended vines can be seen as a type of Christ, who is the true vine (<a href="/john/15.htm">John 15:1</a>), providing spiritual nourishment and life to those who abide in Him.<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, including the instructions for the Year of Jubilee.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The chosen people of God to whom the laws of Leviticus were given, including the observance of the Jubilee.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/m/mount_sinai.htm">Mount Sinai</a></b><br>The place where God gave Moses the laws, including those concerning the Sabbath and Jubilee years.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/j/jubilee_year.htm">Jubilee Year</a></b><br>A special year of rest and restoration occurring every 50th year, where the land was to lie fallow, and debts were forgiven.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/s/sabbath_year.htm">Sabbath Year</a></b><br>Every seventh year, the land was to rest, which is a precursor to the Jubilee Year.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/u/understanding_jubilee_as_rest_and_restoration.htm">Understanding Jubilee as Rest and Restoration</a></b><br>The Jubilee Year is a profound reminder of God's provision and sovereignty. It teaches us to trust in God's provision and to rest in His promises.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_significance_of_jubilee.htm">Spiritual Significance of Jubilee</a></b><br>The Jubilee Year foreshadows the ultimate rest and freedom found in Christ. As believers, we are called to live in the freedom and rest that Jesus provides.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/p/practical_implications_of_jubilee_principles.htm">Practical Implications of Jubilee Principles</a></b><br>The principles of the Jubilee encourage us to practice forgiveness, release from debts, and care for the poor and marginalized in our communities.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/trusting_god's_provision.htm">Trusting God's Provision</a></b><br>Just as the Israelites were to trust God for provision during the Jubilee, we are called to trust God in our lives, especially in times of uncertainty.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/l/living_out_jubilee_today.htm">Living Out Jubilee Today</a></b><br>While the literal observance of the Jubilee is not practiced today, its principles can guide us in promoting justice, mercy, and compassion in our daily lives.<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/why_don't_nearby_cultures_record_jubilees.htm">Why do other civilizations around Israel not record similar extended fallow periods or Jubilees, if this commandment (Lev 25) was practiced widely?</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/what_was_the_2017_jubilee_event.htm">What is the Jubilee celebration in 2017?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_the_year_of_jubilee_signify.htm">What does the Year of Jubilee signify?</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>(11) <span class= "bld">A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you.</span>--According to the unanimous testimony of the authorities during the second Temple, including Philo (ii. 287-290) and Josephus (<span class= "ital">Antt. iii.</span> 12, ? 3), the jubile was observed every fiftieth year, as is plainly enjoined both in the verse before us and in <a href="/leviticus/25-10.htm" title="And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee to you; and you shall return every man to his possession, and you shall return every man to his family.">Leviticus 25:10</a>. As the forty-ninth year is the sabbatical year and the fiftieth year the jubile, there were two successive fallow years.<p><span class= "bld">Ye shall not sow.</span>--As the fiftieth year is jubile, and partakes of the nature of the sabbatical year, sowing and reaping are forbidden.<p><span class= "bld">Neither reap that which groweth of itself in it.</span>--That is, the spontaneous growth of this year is not to be made into a regular harvest and stored up. (See <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm" title="That which grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, neither gather the grapes of your vine undressed: for it is a year of rest to the land.">Leviticus 25:5</a>.)<p><span class= "bld">Vine undressed.</span>--See <a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm" title="That which grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, neither gather the grapes of your vine undressed: for it is a year of rest to the land.">Leviticus 25:5</a>.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/leviticus/25.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 11, 12.</span> - So far as the tillage of the land went, the jubilee year was to have the same effect as a sabbatical year. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/leviticus/25-11.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">The fiftieth</span><br /><span class="heb">הַחֲמִשִּׁ֥ים</span> <span class="translit">(ha·ḥă·miš·šîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Number - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2572.htm">Strong's 2572: </a> </span><span class="str2">Fifty</span><br /><br /><span class="word">year</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׁנַ֛ת</span> <span class="translit">(šə·naṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<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">will be</span><br /><span class="heb">תִּהְיֶ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(tih·yeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a jubilee</span><br /><span class="heb">יוֹבֵ֣ל</span> <span class="translit">(yō·w·ḇêl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3104.htm">Strong's 3104: </a> </span><span class="str2">A ram, ram's horn (a wind instrument)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for you;</span><br /><span class="heb">לָכֶ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(lā·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">you are not</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹ֣א</span> <span class="translit">(lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to sow</span><br /><span class="heb">תִזְרָ֔עוּ</span> <span class="translit">(ṯiz·rā·‘ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - 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">or</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹ֤א</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">reap</span><br /><span class="heb">תִקְצְרוּ֙</span> <span class="translit">(ṯiq·ṣə·rū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7114.htm">Strong's 7114: </a> </span><span class="str2">To dock off, curtail, to harvest</span><br /><br /><span class="word">what grows by itself</span><br /><span class="heb">סְפִיחֶ֔יהָ</span> <span class="translit">(sə·p̄î·ḥe·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5599.htm">Strong's 5599: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something, falling off, a self-sown crop, a freshet</span><br /><br /><span class="word">or harvest</span><br /><span class="heb">תִבְצְר֖וּ</span> <span class="translit">(ṯiḇ·ṣə·rū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1219.htm">Strong's 1219: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cut off, make inaccessible, enclose</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the untended vines.</span><br /><span class="heb">נְזִרֶֽיהָ׃</span> <span class="translit">(nə·zi·re·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5139.htm">Strong's 5139: </a> </span><span class="str2">Nazirite -- one consecrated, devoted</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/25-11.htm">Leviticus 25:11 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/25-11.htm">Leviticus 25:11 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/25-11.htm">Leviticus 25:11 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/25-11.htm">Leviticus 25:11 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/25-11.htm">Leviticus 25:11 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/25-11.htm">Leviticus 25:11 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/25-11.htm">Leviticus 25:11 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/25-11.htm">Leviticus 25:11 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/25-11.htm">Leviticus 25:11 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/leviticus/25-11.htm">Leviticus 25:11 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/leviticus/25-11.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 25:11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee (Le Lv Lev.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/leviticus/25-10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 25:10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 25:10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/leviticus/25-12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 25:12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 25:12" /></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>