18 ‘You shall therefore [a]follow My statutes and keep My judgments so as to carry them out, so that (A)you may live securely on the land. 19 Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it. 20 But if you say, “(B)What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we do not sow nor gather in our produce?” 21 then (C)I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the produce for three years. 22 When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat (D)old things from the produce, eating the old until the ninth year when its produce comes in.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:18 Lit do My

18 “‘Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws,(A) and you will live safely in the land.(B) 19 Then the land will yield its fruit,(C) and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.(D) 20 You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year(E) if we do not plant or harvest our crops?” 21 I will send you such a blessing(F) in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.(G) 22 While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.(H)

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