Exodus 23:10

Literal Standard Version

And [for] six years you sow your land and have gathered its increase;

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:

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

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

¹⁰And [for] six years you sow your land and have gathered its increase;¹¹and [in] the seventh you release it, and have left it, and the needy of your people have eaten, and the beast of the field eats their remainder; so you do to your vineyard [and] to your olive-yard. ¹²Six days you do your work, and on the seventh day you rest, so that your ox and your donkey rest, and the son of your handmaid and the sojourner is refreshed; ¹³and in all that which I have said to you—take heed; and you do not mention the name of other gods; it is not heard on your mouth. ¹⁴You keep a celebration to Me three times in a year: ¹⁵you keep the Celebration of Unleavened Things (you eat unleavened things [for] seven days as I have commanded you, at the time appointed [in] the month of Abib; for in it you have come forth out of Egypt, and you do not appear [in] My presence empty); ¹⁶and the Celebration of Harvest, the first-fruits of your works which you sow in the field; and the Celebration of the Ingathering in the outgoing of the year, in your gathering your works out of the field. ¹⁷Three times in a year all your males appear before [the] face of the Lord YHWH. ¹⁸You do not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice on a fermented thing, and the fat of My festival does not remain until morning; ¹⁹the beginning of the first-fruits of your ground you bring into the house of your God YHWH; you do not boil a kid 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
And the life of Sarah is one hundred and twenty-seven years—years of the life of Sarah;

Genesis 23:3
And Abraham rises up from the presence of his dead, and speaks to the sons of Heth, saying,

Genesis 23:4
"A sojourner and a settler I [am] with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me."

Genesis 23:18
to Abraham by purchase, before the eyes of the sons of Heth, among all entering the gate of his city.

Genesis 24:10
And the servant takes ten camels of the camels of his lord and goes, also of all the goods of his lord in his hand, and he rises, and goes to Aram-Naharaim, to the city of Nahor;

Genesis 34:20
And Hamor comes—his son Shechem also—to the gate of their city, and they speak to the men of their city, saying,

Genesis 34:24
And to Hamor, and to his son Shechem, do all those going out of the gate of his city listen, and every male is circumcised, all those going out of the gate of his city.

Job 29:7
When I go out to the gate by the city, || In a broad place I prepare my seat.

Isaiah 28:6
And for a spirit of judgment || To him who is sitting in the judgment, || And for might [to] those turning back the battle to the gate.

Matthew 9:1
And having gone into the boat, He passed over, and came to His own city,

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.”