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This applies to you, your male and female servants, your hired workers, and the temporary residents who live with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/leviticus/25.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/25.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/leviticus/25.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/leviticus/25.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And the sabbath <i>produce</i> of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/leviticus/25.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br /><i>All of</i> you shall have the Sabbath <i>produce</i> of the land as food; for yourself, your male and female slaves, and your hired worker and your foreign resident, those who live as strangers among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/leviticus/25.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />All of you shall have the sabbath products of the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/leviticus/25.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘And all of you shall have the sabbath <i>products</i> of the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/leviticus/25.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And the sabbath <i>produce</i> of the land shall be for food; for you and your male and female slaves and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who sojourn with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/leviticus/25.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />And all of you shall have for food whatever the [untilled] land produces during its Sabbath year; yourself, and your male and female slaves, your hired servant, and the foreigners who reside among you,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/leviticus/25.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year can be food for you—for yourself, your male or female slave, and the hired worker or alien who resides with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/leviticus/25.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year can be food for you—for yourself, your male or female slave, and the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/leviticus/25.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger, who sojourn with thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/leviticus/25.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger that sojourn with thee;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/leviticus/25.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Whatever the land produces during that year is for all of you to eat-for you, your male and female slaves, your hired workers, foreigners among you,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/leviticus/25.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Although the land has not been cultivated during that year, it will provide food for you, your slaves, your hired men, the foreigners living with you, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/leviticus/25.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />You may take the Sabbath produce of the land for your food—you, your male and maid servants, your hired laborers, and the resident alien with you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/leviticus/25.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you?for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/leviticus/25.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat--you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/leviticus/25.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/leviticus/25.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/leviticus/25.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/leviticus/25.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And the Sabbath [increase] of the land has been for you for food, to you, and to your manservant, and to your handmaid, and to your hired worker, and to your settler, who are sojourning with you;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/leviticus/25.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'And the sabbath of the land hath been to you for food, to thee, and to thy man-servant, and to thy handmaid, and to thy hireling, and to thy settler, who are sojourning with thee;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/leviticus/25.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food; to thee and to thy servant, and to thy maid, and to thy hireling, and to thine inhabitant sojourning with thee.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/leviticus/25.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy manservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn with thee: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/leviticus/25.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />But these shall be yours for food, for you and for your men and women servants, and for your hired hands, and for the newcomers who sojourn with you:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/leviticus/25.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />While the land has its sabbath, all its produce will be food to eat for you yourself and for your male and female slave, for your laborer and the tenant who live with you,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/25.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You may eat what the land yields during its sabbath—you, your male and female slaves, your hired and your bound laborers who live with you;<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/leviticus/25.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you, for yourself and for your servants and for your maids and for your hired laborers and for the stranger that sojourns with you<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 have a Sabbath of the land for food, for you and for your servants and for your maids and for your hired men and for your squatters who dwell with you,<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/leviticus/25.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And the sabbath-produce of the land shall be for food for you: for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for the settler by thy side that sojourn with thee;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/leviticus/25.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And the sabbaths of the land shall be food for thee, and for thy man-servant, and for thy maid-servant, and thy hireling, and the stranger that abides with thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/25-6.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=6659" 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 Sabbatical Year</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest. <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: hā·’ā·reṣ (Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">Whatever the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·ḵem (Prep:: 2mp) -- ">yields</a> <a href="/hebrew/7676.htm" title="7676: šab·baṯ (N-csc) -- Sabbath. Intensive from shabath; intermission, i.e the Sabbath.">during the Sabbath year</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: wə·hā·yə·ṯāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3fs) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">shall be</a> <a href="/hebrew/402.htm" title="402: lə·’āḵ·lāh (Prep-l:: N-fs) -- Food, eating. Feminine of 'Ukal; food.">food for you—</a> <a href="/hebrew/lə·ḵā (Prep:: 2ms) -- ">for yourself,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5650.htm" title="5650: ū·lə·‘aḇ·də·ḵā (Conj-w, Prep-l:: N-msc:: 2ms) -- Slave, servant. From abad; a servant.">your manservant</a> <a href="/hebrew/519.htm" title="519: wə·la·’ă·mā·ṯe·ḵā (Conj-w, Prep-l:: N-fsc:: 2ms) -- A maid, handmaid. Apparently a primitive word; a maid-servant or female slave.">and maidservant,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7916.htm" title="7916: wə·liś·ḵî·rə·ḵā (Conj-w, Prep-l:: Adj-msc:: 2ms) -- Hired. From sakar; a man at wages by the day or year.">the hired hand</a> <a href="/hebrew/8453.htm" title="8453: ū·lə·ṯō·wō·šā·ḇə·ḵā (Conj-w, Prep-l:: N-msc:: 2ms) -- A sojourner. ">or foreigner</a> <a href="/hebrew/1481.htm" title="1481: hag·gā·rîm (Art:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- A primitive root; properly, to turn aside from the road, i.e. Sojourn; also to shrink, fear; also to gather for hostility.">who stays</a> <a href="/hebrew/5973.htm" title="5973: ‘im·māḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- From amam; adverb or preposition, with, in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix.">with you,</a> </span><span class="reftext">7</span>and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.…<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="/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="/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="/genesis/2-2.htm">Genesis 2:2-3</a></span><br />And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. / Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/16-29.htm">Exodus 16:29-30</a></span><br />Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.” / So the people rested on the seventh day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/31-10.htm">Deuteronomy 31:10-11</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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/6-25.htm">Matthew 6:25-26</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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/12-24.htm">Luke 12:24</a></span><br />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/12-1.htm">Matthew 12:1-8</a></span><br />At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. / When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.” / Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/2-23.htm">Mark 2:23-28</a></span><br />One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along. / So the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” / Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/6-1.htm">Luke 6:1-5</a></span><br />One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them. / But some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” / Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for your stranger that sojournes with you.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/23-11.htm">Exodus 23:11</a></b></br> But the seventh <i>year</i> thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, <i>and</i> with thy oliveyard.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/acts/2-44.htm">Acts 2:44</a></b></br> And all that believed were together, and had all things common;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/acts/4-32.htm">Acts 4:32,34,35</a></b></br> And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any <i>of them</i> that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/22-18.htm">Aliens</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-22.htm">Country</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-22.htm">Female</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-9.htm">Food</a> <a href="/exodus/21-8.htm">Foreign</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-22.htm">Foreigner</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-10.htm">Hired</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-43.htm">Live</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm">Maid</a> <a href="/exodus/21-32.htm">Maidservant</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-19.htm">Male</a> <a href="/exodus/21-32.htm">Manservant</a> <a href="/exodus/21-32.htm">Man-Servant</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-37.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-21.htm">Payment</a> <a href="/genesis/43-11.htm">Products</a> <a href="/exodus/12-45.htm">Resident</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-4.htm">Sabbath</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-10.htm">Servant</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-10.htm">Settler</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-14.htm">Side</a> <a href="/exodus/21-7.htm">Slaves</a> <a href="/leviticus/20-2.htm">Sojourn</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-22.htm">Sojourner</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-34.htm">Sojourneth</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-22.htm">Stranger</a> <a href="/exodus/12-45.htm">Temporary</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-20.htm">Whatever</a> <a href="/exodus/21-32.htm">Woman-Servant</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-10.htm">Worker</a> <a href="/leviticus/14-44.htm">Working</a> <a href="/james/3-12.htm">Yields</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/25-23.htm">Aliens</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-24.htm">Country</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-44.htm">Female</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-7.htm">Food</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/31-16.htm">Foreign</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-47.htm">Foreigner</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-50.htm">Hired</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-18.htm">Live</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/22-14.htm">Maid</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-14.htm">Maidservant</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-44.htm">Male</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-14.htm">Manservant</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-44.htm">Man-Servant</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-7.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-40.htm">Payment</a> <a href="/job/31-8.htm">Products</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Resident</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-34.htm">Sabbath</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-39.htm">Servant</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Settler</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-47.htm">Side</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-42.htm">Slaves</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-45.htm">Sojourn</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Sojourner</a> <a href="/numbers/15-15.htm">Sojourneth</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Stranger</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Temporary</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-7.htm">Whatever</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-14.htm">Woman-Servant</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-40.htm">Worker</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-40.htm">Working</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-12.htm">Yields</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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During this year, the land is to lie fallow, and the Israelites are to trust in God's provision. This practice emphasizes reliance on God rather than human effort. It also serves as a reminder of the creation week, where God rested on the seventh day (<a href="/genesis/2-2.htm">Genesis 2:2-3</a>). The land's natural yield during this time is a testament to God's ongoing provision and care.<p><b>shall be food for you</b><br>The produce that grows naturally without cultivation is intended to sustain the people. This provision underscores the principle of divine providence, where God supplies the needs of His people. It also reflects the manna provided in the wilderness (Exodus 16), where God supplied food without human labor. This reliance on God's provision is a precursor to the New Testament teaching of trusting God for daily needs (<a href="/matthew/6-25.htm">Matthew 6:25-34</a>).<p><b>for yourself</b><br>The primary beneficiaries of the Sabbath year's yield are the landowners themselves. This ensures that even without active farming, the basic needs of the family are met. It highlights the personal aspect of God's care and provision for each individual.<p><b>your manservant and maidservant</b><br>Servants, who were often part of the household, are also included in this provision. This reflects the biblical principle of caring for those who work for you, ensuring that they too benefit from God's provision. It aligns with the broader biblical theme of justice and kindness towards servants (<a href="/ephesians/6-9.htm">Ephesians 6:9</a>, <a href="/colossians/4.htm">Colossians 4:1</a>).<p><b>the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you</b><br>The inclusion of hired hands and foreigners demonstrates the inclusive nature of God's provision. It reflects the biblical mandate to care for the sojourner and the stranger (<a href="/deuteronomy/10-18.htm">Deuteronomy 10:18-19</a>). This provision foreshadows the New Testament teaching of the gospel being available to all people, Jew and Gentile alike (<a href="/galatians/3-28.htm">Galatians 3:28</a>). It also emphasizes the community's responsibility to ensure that everyone, regardless of status or origin, is cared for during the Sabbath year.<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 found 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, including the instructions for the Sabbath year.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/m/mount_sinai.htm">Mount Sinai</a></b><br>The place where God gave Moses the laws for the Israelites, including the instructions for the Sabbath year.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/s/sabbath_year.htm">Sabbath Year</a></b><br>A year of rest for the land, occurring every seventh year, during which the land was to lie fallow, and the people were to rely on what the land naturally produced.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/p/promised_land.htm">Promised Land</a></b><br>The land of Canaan, which God promised to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, where these laws were to be observed.<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 Sabbath year required the Israelites to trust that God would provide for their needs without their usual agricultural efforts. This teaches us to rely on God's provision in our lives, even when we cannot see the immediate results of our labor.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/rest_and_renewal.htm">Rest and Renewal</a></b><br>Just as the land needed rest, we too need periods of rest and renewal. This principle encourages us to incorporate regular rest into our lives, trusting that God will sustain us.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/care_for_the_community.htm">Care for the Community</a></b><br>The produce of the Sabbath year was for everyone, including servants, hired workers, and foreigners. This teaches us the importance of caring for our community and sharing our resources with those in need.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/stewardship_of_creation.htm">Stewardship of Creation</a></b><br>Allowing the land to rest demonstrates a respect for God's creation. We are called to be good stewards of the earth, ensuring its health and productivity for future generations.<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_defines_social_justice.htm">What defines social justice?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_defines_a_sanctuary_room.htm">What defines a sanctuary room?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_jeremiah's_70-year_prophecy.htm">How can Jeremiah's seventy-year prophecy in 2 Chronicles 36:21 be reconciled with varying historical sources about the length of the exile?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_deut._15_16-17_fit_liberation.htm">Deuteronomy 15:16-17 allows perpetual servitude--how does this align with the broader biblical theme of liberation from bondage?</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>(6) <span class= "bld">And the sabbath of the land.</span>--That is, the growth or produce during this sabbath of the land. For the figure of speech see Lev. 18:38.<p><span class= "bld">Shall be meat for you.</span>--That is, it shall serve as your food, but you must not trade with it, or store it up. Hence, during the second Temple the produce of the sabbatical year could only be used for direct consumption, and was not allowed to be converted first into other articles and then used. Thus, for instance, though wood of that year could be used as firewood, yet it was illegal to convert it first into coal and then use the coal thus obtained from the wood, nor was it legal to convert vegetables into medicines, or to give human food to animals.<p><span class= "bld">For thee, and for thy servant . . . --</span>The produce is to be left in the field for the free use of the poor, the servant, &c. (See also <a href="/exodus/23-11.htm" title="But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie still; that the poor of your people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard, and with your olive grove.">Exodus 23:11</a>.) Hence it was enacted during the second Temple that "whoso locks up his vineyard, or hedges in his field, or gathers all the fruit into his house in the sabbatical year breaks this law." Everything is to be left common, and every man has a right to every thing in every place. Every man could only bring into his house a little at a time according to the manner of things that are in common."<p><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/leviticus/25-6.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">Whatever the land</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאָ֤רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ā·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">yields</span><br /><span class="heb">לָכֶם֙</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">during the Sabbath year</span><br /><span class="heb">שַׁבַּ֨ת</span> <span class="translit">(šab·baṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7676.htm">Strong's 7676: </a> </span><span class="str2">Intermission, the Sabbath</span><br /><br /><span class="word">shall be</span><br /><span class="heb">וְ֠הָיְתָה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hā·yə·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - 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">food for you—</span><br /><span class="heb">לְאָכְלָ֔ה</span> <span class="translit">(lə·’āḵ·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_402.htm">Strong's 402: </a> </span><span class="str2">Food, eating</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for yourself,</span><br /><span class="heb">לְךָ֖</span> <span class="translit">(lə·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">your manservant</span><br /><span class="heb">וּלְעַבְדְּךָ֣</span> <span class="translit">(ū·lə·‘aḇ·də·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5650.htm">Strong's 5650: </a> </span><span class="str2">Slave, servant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and maidservant,</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלַאֲמָתֶ֑ךָ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·la·’ă·mā·ṯe·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_519.htm">Strong's 519: </a> </span><span class="str2">A maidservant, female slave</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the hired hand</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלִשְׂכִֽירְךָ֙</span> <span class="translit">(wə·liś·ḵî·rə·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Adjective - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7916.htm">Strong's 7916: </a> </span><span class="str2">A man at wages</span><br /><br /><span class="word">or foreigner</span><br /><span class="heb">וּלְתוֹשָׁ֣בְךָ֔</span> <span class="translit">(ū·lə·ṯō·wō·šā·ḇə·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8453.htm">Strong's 8453: </a> </span><span class="str2">Resident alien</span><br /><br /><span class="word">who stays</span><br /><span class="heb">הַגָּרִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(hag·gā·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1481.htm">Strong's 1481: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn aside from the road, sojourn, to shrink, fear, to gather for, hostility</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with you,</span><br /><span class="heb">עִמָּֽךְ׃</span> <span class="translit">(‘im·māḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5973.htm">Strong's 5973: </a> </span><span class="str2">With, equally with</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/25-6.htm">Leviticus 25:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/25-6.htm">Leviticus 25:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/25-6.htm">Leviticus 25:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/25-6.htm">Leviticus 25:6 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/25-6.htm">Leviticus 25:6 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/25-6.htm">Leviticus 25:6 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/25-6.htm">Leviticus 25:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/25-6.htm">Leviticus 25:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/25-6.htm">Leviticus 25:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/leviticus/25-6.htm">Leviticus 25:6 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/leviticus/25-6.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 25:6 The Sabbath of the land shall be (Le Lv Lev.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/leviticus/25-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 25:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 25:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/leviticus/25-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 25:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 25:7" /></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>