Leviticus 25:20
New International Version
You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?”

New Living Translation
But you might ask, ‘What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?’

English Standard Version
And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’

Berean Standard Bible
Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’

King James Bible
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

New King James Version
‘And if you say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?”

New American Standard Bible
But if you say, “What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we do not sow nor gather in our produce?”

NASB 1995
‘But if you say, “What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?”

NASB 1977
‘But if you say, “What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?”

Legacy Standard Bible
But if you say, “What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our produce?”

Amplified Bible
And if you say, “What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we do not sow [seed] or gather in our crops?”

Christian Standard Bible
If you wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce? ’

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you wonder: ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce?’

American Standard Version
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year when we do not sow and we do not gather its harvests?':

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if ye should say, What shall we eat in this seventh year, if we do not sow nor gather in our fruits?

Contemporary English Version
Don't ever worry about what you will eat during the seventh year when you are forbidden to plant or harvest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?

English Revised Version
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You may ask, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or bring in our crops?'

Good News Translation
But someone may ask what there will be to eat during the seventh year, when no fields are planted and no crops gathered.

International Standard Version
"Now if you ask, 'What will we eat during the seventh year? After all, we may not plant or even gather our produce!'

JPS Tanakh 1917
And if ye shall say: 'What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase';

Literal Standard Version
And when you say, What do we eat in the seventh year, behold, do we not sow, nor gather our increase?

Majority Standard Bible
Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’

New American Bible
And if you say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow or reap our crop?”

NET Bible
If you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?'

New Revised Standard Version
Should you ask, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?”

New Heart English Bible
If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Look, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"

Webster's Bible Translation
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow nor gather in our increase:

World English Bible
If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”

Young's Literal Translation
'And when ye say, What do we eat in the seventh year, lo, we do not sow, nor gather our increase?

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Context
The Blessing of Obedience
19Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land. 20Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’ 21But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.…

Cross References
Leviticus 25:4
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.

Leviticus 25:6
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,

Leviticus 25:19
Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.


Treasury of Scripture

And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

Numbers 11:4,13
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? …

2 Kings 6:15-17
And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? …

2 Kings 7:2
Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

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Leviticus 25
1. the Sabbath of the seventh year
8. The jubilee in the fiftieth year
14. Of oppression
18. A blessing of obedience
23. The redemption of land
29. Of houses
35. Compassion to the poor
39. The usage of bondmen
47. The redemption of servants














(20) What shall we eat the seventh year ?--The Lawgiver here anticipates an objection on the part of those who are called upon to abstain from cultivating the land in the sabbatical year, and who are overanxious about the provisions of their families.

Behold, we shall not sow.--That is, are forbidden to sow. (See Leviticus 25:4.)

Nor gather in our increase.--That is, we are even prohibited to gather the spontaneous growths and store them up, and are commanded to leave "the increase" in the field. (See Leviticus 25:7.)



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now
וְכִ֣י (wə·ḵî)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you may wonder,
תֹאמְר֔וּ (ṯō·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘What
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

will we eat
נֹּאכַ֤֖ל‪‬ (nō·ḵal)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 398: To eat

in the seventh
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֑ת (haš·šə·ḇî·‘iṯ)
Article | Number - ordinal feminine singular
Strong's 7637: Seventh (an ordinal number)

year
בַּשָּׁנָ֣ה (baš·šā·nāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

if
הֵ֚ן (hên)
Interjection
Strong's 2005: Lo! behold!

we do not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

sow
נִזְרָ֔ע (niz·rā‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify

or gather
נֶאֱסֹ֖ף (ne·’ĕ·sōp̄)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 622: To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove

our produce?’
תְּבוּאָתֵֽנוּ׃ (tə·ḇū·’ā·ṯê·nū)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 8393: Product, revenue


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