Leviticus 25:12

Bible in Basic English

For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat the increase of it out of the field.

King James Version
For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

Lexham English Bible
Because it is a Jubilee, it shall be holy to you. You must eat its produce from the field.

New Century Version
That year is Jubilee; it will be a holy time for you. You may eat only the crops that come from the field.

New English Translation
Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you—you may eat its produce from the field.

Amplified Bible
'For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its crops out of the field.

New American Standard Bible
'For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its produce from the field.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For it is the Iubile, it shall be holy vnto you: ye shall eate of the encrease thereof out of the fielde.

Legacy Standard Bible
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its produce out of the field.

Contemporary English Version
In this time of sacred celebration you may eat only what grows on its own.

Complete Jewish Bible
because it is a yovel. It will be holy for you; whatever the fields produce will be food for all of you.

Darby Translation
For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; out of the field shall ye eat its produce.

Easy-to-Read Version
That year is Jubilee. It will be a holy time for you. You will eat the crops that come from the field.

English Standard Version
For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field.

George Lamsa Translation
For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat the produce out of the field.

Good News Translation
The whole year shall be sacred for you; you shall eat only what the fields produce of themselves.

Christian Standard Bible®
It is to be holy to you because it is the Jubilee; you may only eat its produce directly from the field.

Literal Translation
for it is a jubilee, it is holy to you; you shall eat its increase out of the field.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the yeare of Iubilye shall be holy amonge you. But loke what the felde beareth, that shall ye eate.

American Standard Version
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For that yere of Iubilee shalbe holy vnto you: but ye shall eate of the encrease therof out of the fielde.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

King James Version (1611)
For it is the Iubile, it shall be holy vnto you: ye shall eate the encrease thereof out of the field.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For it is a jubilee of release; it shall be holy to you, ye shall eat its fruits off the fields.

English Revised Version
For it is a jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

Berean Standard Bible
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but anoon ye schulen ete thingis takun awey;

Young's Literal Translation
for a jubilee it [is], holy it is to you; out of the field ye eat its increase;

Update Bible Version
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

Webster's Bible Translation
For it [is] the jubilee; it shall be holy to you: ye shall eat the increase of it out of the field.

World English Bible
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat the increase of it out of the field.

New King James Version
For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field.

New Living Translation
It will be a jubilee year for you, and you must keep it holy. But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own.

New Life Bible
This is a happy time. It will be holy to you. You will eat from what the field gives.

New Revised Standard
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat only what the field itself produces.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, a jubilee, it is, holy, shall it be unto you, - out of the field, shall ye eat her increase.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because of the sanctification of the jubilee. But as they grow you shall presently eat them.

Revised Standard Version
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat what it yields out of the field.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field.

Contextual Overview

⁸ And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years; ⁹ Then let the loud horn be sounded far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of taking away sin let the horn be sounded through all your land. ¹⁰ And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family. ¹¹ Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines. ¹² For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field. ¹³ In this year of Jubilee, let every man go back to his heritage. ¹⁴ And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another. ¹⁵ Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce. ¹⁶ If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you. ¹⁷ And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

Bible Verse Review
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Leviticus 25:6, Leviticus 25:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:22 - General Exodus 23:11 - the seventh

Cross-References

Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 21:13
And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

Genesis 25:10
The same field which Abraham got from the children of Heth: there Abraham was put to rest with Sarah, his wife.

Genesis 25:15
Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

Psalms 83:6
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For it is the jubilee, it shall be holy,.... Men being restored to their liberty, possessions, and families, it must be matter of joy to them, and therefore this year was to be separated from all others, and devoted to the ends and uses before mentioned; and men were to live upon the spontaneous productions of the earth, without any tillage of land, or cultivation of vines, c.

ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field they were not to reap corn, and gather grapes and olives, and bring them into their barns and storehouses, as in other years; but were to go out every day into their fields, and gather for present use, and all were common to all sorts of men, and to cattle, as in the sabbatical year;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The land was to be divided by lot among the families of the Israelites when the possession of it was obtained. Numbers 26:52-56; Numbers 33:54, etc. At the end of every seventh sabbatical cycle of years, in the year of Jubilee, each field or estate that might have been alienated was to be restored to the family to which it had been originally allotted.

Leviticus 25:8

Seven sabbaths of years - seven weeks of years.

Leviticus 25:9

Cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound - Rather, cause the sound of the cornet to go through (the land). The word jubile does not occur in this verse in the Hebrew. The trumpet is the shofar שׁפר shôphār, i. e. the cornet (rendered “shawm” in the Prayer-Book version of Psalms 98:7), either the horn of some animal or a tube of metal shaped like one. As the sound of the cornet (see Leviticus 25:10 note) was the signal of the descent of Yahweh when He came down upon Sinai to take Israel into covenant with Himself Exodus 19:13, Exodus 19:16, Exodus 19:19; Exodus 20:18, so the same sound announced, at the close of the great day of atonement, after the Evening sacrifice, the year which restored each Israelite to the freedom and the blessings of the covenant.

Leviticus 25:10

The fiftieth year - The Jubilee probably coincided with each seventh sabbatical year, and was called the fiftieth, as being the last of a series of which the first was the preceding Jubilee.

A jubile - Commonly spelled jubilee. The original word first occurs in Exodus 19:13, where it is rendered “trumpet,” margin “cornet.” It most probably denotes the sound of the cornet, not the cornet itself, and is derived from a root, signifying to flow abundantly, which by a familiar metaphor might be applied to sound.