Leviticus 25:1-7
International Standard Version
Sabbatical Years
25 The Lord told Moses on Mount Sinai, 2 “Tell the Israelis that when you enter the land that I’m about to give you, you are to let the land observe a Sabbath to the Lord. 3 For six years you may plant your fields, and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce. 4 But the seventh year is to be a Sabbath of rest for the land—a Sabbath for the Lord. You are not to plant your field or prune your vineyard. 5 You are not to gather what grows from the spilled kernels of your crops. You are not to pick the grapes of your untrimmed vines. Let it be a year of Sabbath for the land. 6 You may take the Sabbath produce[a] of the land for your food—you, your male and maid servants, your hired laborers, and the resident alien with you. 7 The cattle and the wild animals in your land—everything it produces—are for your food.
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- Leviticus 25:6 The Heb. lacks produce
Leviticus 25:1-7
Lexham English Bible
The Sabbath Year
25 Then[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai,[b] saying, 2 “Speak to the Israelites,[c] and say to them, ‘When you[d] come into the land that I am about to give to you,[e] then[f] the land shall observe a Sabbath for Yahweh. 3 Six years you[g] shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and you shall gather its yield. 4 But[h] in the seventh year it shall be a Sabbath of complete rest[i] for the land—a Sabbath for Yahweh; you[j] must not sow your field, and you must not prune your vineyard. 5 You[k] must not reap your harvest’s aftergrowth, and you must not harvest the grapes of your unpruned vines—it shall be a year of complete rest[l] for the land. 6 And a Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you:[m] for you[n] and for your slave and for your slave woman and for your hired worker and for your temporary residents[o] who are dwelling as aliens with you; 7 and all its yield shall be for your[p] domestic animal and for the wild animal, which are in your land to eat.
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- Leviticus 25:1 Or “And”
- Leviticus 25:1 Literally “the mountain of Sinai”
- Leviticus 25:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Leviticus 25:2 Plural
- Leviticus 25:2 Plural
- Leviticus 25:2 Or “and”
- Leviticus 25:3 Singular throughout this verse
- Leviticus 25:4 Or “And”
- Leviticus 25:4 Literally “a Sabbath of ‘Sabbathation.’” “Sabbathation” is not a real word, but it is devised as an attempt to convey the sounds of the related nouns in the Hebrew phrase
- Leviticus 25:4 Singular throughout this verse
- Leviticus 25:5 Singular throughout this verse
- Leviticus 25:5 Literally “a year of a rest period”
- Leviticus 25:6 Plural
- Leviticus 25:6 Singular here and through the rest of this verse
- Leviticus 25:6 Collective singular; Hebrew “temporary resident”
- Leviticus 25:7 Singular throughout this verse
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