Leviticus 25:22

Verse

While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Bible in Basic English

And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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.

Free Bible Version

As you sow in the eighth year, you will still be eating from that harvest, which will last until your harvest in the ninth year.

Geneva Bible 1599

And ye shall sowe the eight yeere, and eate of the olde fruite vntill the ninth yeere: vntill the fruite thereof come, ye shall eate the olde.

King James (Authorized) Version

And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

One Unity Resource Bible

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.

Translation for Translators

Then, after you plant seed during the eighth/next year and wait for the crops to grow, you will eat the food grown in the sixth year, and continue to eat it until more food is harvested in the ninth year!

Unlocked Literal Bible

You will plant in the eighth year and continue to eat from the previous years' produce and the stored food. Until the harvest of the ninth year comes in, you will be able to eat from the provisions stored in the previous years.

Noah Webster Bible

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 .

World English Bible

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.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Context

The Blessing of Obedience

²¹But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.²²While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.

Summary

In Leviticus 25:22, God promises to provide for His people during the Sabbatical Year, assuring them that they will have enough food to eat even when they are not sowing or reaping. This verse demonstrates God's faithfulness and provision, encouraging trust in His care and sovereignty. It teaches the importance of honoring God's commandments, including the observance of rest and trust in His provision. Ultimately, Leviticus 25:22 reveals God's loving concern for His people's well-being and sustenance, emphasizing the principle of dependence on Him for all their needs.

Commentary

John Gill

John Gill Bible Commentary

And ye shall sow the eighth year,.... Sow the land in the eighth year, and likewise dress their vines, olives, &c. and eat yet of the old fruit; even in the eighth year, of the old fruit of the sixth year, as the Targum of Jonathan adds: until the ninth year; that is, as Jarchi explains it, until the feast of tabernacles of the ninth, which was the time that the increase of the eighth came into the house; for all summer it was in the field, and in Tisri or September was the time of gathering it into the house; and sometimes it was necessary to provide for four years on the sixth, which was before the sabbatical year, the seventh, for they ceased from tilling the ground two years running, the seventh and the jubilee year; but this Scripture is said concerning all the rest of the sabbatical years: these encouraging promises, one would have thought, would have been placed more naturally after the account of the sabbatical year that followed, Lev 25:7; but the reason of their being inserted here seems to be, because in the year of jubilee they were neither to sow nor reap, nor gather in the grapes of the undressed vine, as in the sabbatical year, Lev 25:11; wherefore those things are said for encouragement at the one time as at the other; since it might easily be concluded, that he that could provide for them every sixth year for three years to come, could once in fifty years provide for four: until her fruits come in, ye shall eat of the old store; some of which came in in March, as barley, others in May, as the wheat, and others in August and September, as the grapes, olives, &c. which was the time of ingathering several fruits of the earth, and of finishing the whole.