3 Mose 25:4

Lutherbibel

aber im siebenten Jahr soll das Land seinen großen Sabbat dem HERRN feiern, darin du dein Feld nicht besäen noch deinen Weinberg beschneiden sollst.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Aber im siebenten Jahr soll das Land seinen Ruhesabbat haben, den Sabbat des Herrn , da du dein Feld nicht besäen, noch deine Reben beschneiden sollst.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Aber im siebten Jahre soll ein Sabbath der Ruhe f�r das Land sein, ein Sabbath dem Jehova; dein Feld sollst du nicht bes�en und deinen Weinberg nicht beschneiden;

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Leviticus 25:20-23, Leviticus 26:34, Leviticus 26:35, Leviticus 26:43, Exodus 23:10, Exodus 23:11, 2 Chronicles 36:21

Reciprocal: Leviticus 16:31 - General Leviticus 25:21 - three years 2 Kings 19:29 - Ye shall eat Nehemiah 10:31 - and that we Isaiah 37:30 - Ye shall Ezekiel 20:12 - I gave

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land,.... From all tillage of it, from planting and cultivating any sort of trees in it; and even from digging pits, ditches; and caves, as say the Jewish writers m: and this was typical of that rest which believers enter into under the Gospel dispensation, and of the rest in the new Jerusalem state, and especially in the ultimate glory; not only from the labours of the body, but of the mind, through sin, Satan, doubts and fears, and through conflicts with various enemies, and when even all spiritual labours and services will be at an end but that of praise:

a sabbath for the Lord; for his honour and glory, to ascertain his property in the land, to show the power of his providence, and display his goodness in his care of all creatures, without any means used by them:

thou shalt neither sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard; under which are comprehended all acts of agriculture, which respect the cultivation of vines, olives, figs, and, according to the Misnah n, there were some instruments which it was not lawful to sell to an artificer in the seventh year, such as a plough, with all belonging to it, a yoke, a fan, a spade, but he may sell him a scythe, or a sickle, or a cart, and all its instruments; and which the commentators o interpret of one that is suspected of working in that year; the house of Shammai say, an heifer that ploughed might not be sold that year.

m Torat Cohenim apud Yalkut, ut supra. (par. 1. fol. 191. 1.) n Sheviith, c. 5. sect. 6. o Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A sabbath of rest - See Leviticus 23:3 note. The express prohibition of sowing and reaping, and of pruning and gathering, affords a presumption in favor of the sabbatical year beginning, like the year of Jubilee Leviticus 25:9, in the first month of the civil year Leviticus 23:24, the seventh of the sacred year, when the land was cleared of the crops of the preceding year.

The great material advantage of the institution must have been the increased fertility of the soil from its lying fallow one year out of seven, at a time when neither the rotation of crops nor the art of manuring were understood. It must also have kept up a salutary habit of economy in the storing of grain. Compare Genesis 41:48-56. Its great spiritual lesson was that there was no such thing as absolute ownership in the land vested in any man, that the soil was the property of Yahweh, that it was to be held in trust for Him, and not to be abused by overworking, but to be made the most of for the good of every creature which dwelt upon it.