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Exodus 23:10

For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Sabbatic Year;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture;   Agriculture-Horticulture;   Harvest;   The Topic Concordance - Sabbath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sabbatical Year;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Justice;   Sabbatical year;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Work;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Festivals, Religious;   Sabbatical Year;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Year;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Festivals;   Loan;   Pentateuch;   Sabbatical Year;   Vine;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Agriculture;   Canon of the Old Testament;   Covenant, Book of the;   Debt;   Ethics;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sabbatical Year;   Ten Commandments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Debt, Debtor (2);   Poverty (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sabbatical Year;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jubilee, the Year of;   Law of Moses;   Sabbatical Year;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Agrarian Laws;   Covenant, the Book of the;   Law in the Old Testament;   Poor;   Sabbatical Year;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Job;   Pentecost;   Plague;   Shebi'it;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,
King James Version
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
Lexham English Bible
"‘And six years you will sow your land and gather its yield.
New Century Version
"For six years you are to plant and harvest crops on your land.
New English Translation
"For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.
Amplified Bible
"You shall sow your land six years and harvest its yield,
New American Standard Bible
"Now you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moreouer, sixe yeres thou shalt sowe thy land, and gather the fruites thereof,
Legacy Standard Bible
"Now you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its produce,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord said: Plant and harvest your crops for six years,
Complete Jewish Bible
"For six years, you are to sow your land with seed and gather in its harvest.
Darby Translation
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in its produce;
Easy-to-Read Version
"Plant seeds, harvest your crops, and work the ground for six years.
English Standard Version
"For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,
George Lamsa Translation
For six years you shall sow your land and shall gather in the crops thereof:
Good News Translation
"For six years plant your land and gather in what it produces.
Christian Standard Bible®
“Sow your land for six years and gather its produce.
Literal Translation
And you shall sow your land six years, and you shall gather its produce.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sixe yeares shalt thou sowe thy londe, and gather in the frute therof:
American Standard Version
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:
Bible in Basic English
For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Sixe yeres thou shalt sowe thy lande, and gather in the fruites therof.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the increase thereof;
King James Version (1611)
And sixe yeres thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruites thereof:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the fruits of it.
English Revised Version
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sixe yeer thou schalt sowe thi lond, and thou schalt gadre fruytis therof;
Young's Literal Translation
`And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase;
Update Bible Version
And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the increase thereof:
Webster's Bible Translation
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
World English Bible
"For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,
New King James Version
"Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce,
New Living Translation
"Plant and harvest your crops for six years,
New Life Bible
"You will plant seeds in your land for six years, and gather the grain.
New Revised Standard
For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And six years, shalt thou sow thy land, - and shalt gather the yield thereof;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof.
Revised Standard Version
"For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield;
THE MESSAGE
"Sow your land for six years and gather in its crops, but in the seventh year leave it alone and give it a rest so that your poor may eat from it. What they leave, let the wildlife have. Do the same with your vineyards and olive groves.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,

Contextual Overview

10For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,11but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat of the field, and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove. 12For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident. 13Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips. 14Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me. 15You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed. 16You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And observe the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field. 17Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD. 18You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning. 19Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

six years: Leviticus 25:3, Leviticus 25:4, Nehemiah 10:31

Reciprocal: Leviticus 2:12 - the oblation Leviticus 25:2 - a sabbath Deuteronomy 15:1 - General Jeremiah 34:8 - to proclaim Jeremiah 34:14 - At the

Cross-References

Genesis 23:1
Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.
Genesis 23:3
Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
Genesis 23:4
"I am a stranger and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead."
Genesis 23:18
to Abraham's possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
Genesis 24:10
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor's hometown in Mesopotamia.
Genesis 34:20
So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
Genesis 34:24
All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.
Job 29:7
When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
Isaiah 28:6
a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.
Matthew 9:1
Jesus got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own town.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And six years thou shall sow thy land, The land of Canaan, given to their ancestors and to them, and which they were now going to inherit; and when they came into it they were to plant it with vines and olives; or rather, these being ready planted, they were to prune and dress them; and they were to till their land, and plough it, and sow it with various sorts of grain, for six years running, from the time of their possession of it:

and shall gather in the fruits thereof; corn and wine, and oil, into their own garners, treasuries, and cellars, as their own property, to dispose of as they pleased for their own use and profit.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the first mention of the Sabbatical year; the law for it is given at length in Leviticus 25:2. Both the Sabbatical year and the weekly Sabbath are here spoken of exclusively in their relation to the poor, as bearing testimony to the equality of the people in their covenant with Yahweh. In the first of these institutions, the proprietor of the soil gave up his rights for the year to the whole community of living creatures, not excepting the beasts: in the latter, the master gave up his claim for the day to the services of his servants and cattle.

Exodus 23:12

May be refreshed - Literally, “may take breath.”


 
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