Leviticus 25:21

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.

King James Version
Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

Lexham English Bible
then I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will make the yield for three years.

New Century Version
I will send you such a great blessing during the sixth year that the land will produce enough crops for three years.

New English Translation
I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield the produce for three years,

Amplified Bible
then [this is My answer:] I will order My [special] blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce [sufficient] crops for three years.

New American Standard Bible
then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the produce for three years.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I will sende my blessing vpon you in the sixt yeere, and it shall bring foorth fruite for three yeeres.

Legacy Standard Bible
then I will command My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the produce for three years.

Contemporary English Version
I will see to it that you harvest enough in the sixth year to last for three years.

Complete Jewish Bible
then I will order my blessing on you during the sixth year, so that the land brings forth enough produce for all three years.

Darby Translation
then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, that it may bring forth produce for three years;

Easy-to-Read Version
I will order my blessing to come to you during the sixth year. The land will continue growing crops for three years.

English Standard Version
I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.

George Lamsa Translation
Then I will send my blessings upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

Good News Translation
The Lord will bless the land in the sixth year so that it will produce enough food for two years.

Christian Standard Bible®
I will appoint my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.

Literal Translation
Then I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall produce the increase for three years;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wyll sende my blessynge vpon you in the sixte yeare,

American Standard Version
then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.

Bible in Basic English
Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll sende my blessyng vpon you in the sixt yere, and it shall bryng foorth fruite for three yeres.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth produce for the three years.

King James Version (1611)
Then I will command my blessing vpon you in the sixt yeere, and it shall bring forth fruit for three yeeres.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then will I send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and the land shall produce its fruits for three years.

English Revised Version
then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.

Berean Standard Bible
But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal yyue my blessyng to you in the sixte yeer, and it schal make fruytis of three yeer;

Young's Literal Translation
then I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it hath made the increase for three years;

Update Bible Version
then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

World English Bible
then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.

New King James Version
Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years.

New Living Translation
Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years.

New Life Bible
I will let My good come upon you in the sixth year, so it will give you enough food for three years.

New Revised Standard
I will order my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will yield a crop for three years.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore will I command my blessing upon you, in the sixth year, - and it shall make the increase of three years;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will give you my blessing the sixth year: and it shall yield the fruits of three years.

Revised Standard Version
I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years.

Contextual Overview

⁸"Count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years: Seven Sabbaths of years adds up to forty-nine years. Then sound loud blasts on the ram's horn on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. Sound the ram's horn all over the land. Sanctify the fiftieth year; make it a holy year. Proclaim freedom all over the land to everyone who lives in it—a Jubilee for you: Each person will go back to his family's property and reunite with his extended family. The fiftieth year is your Jubilee year: Don't sow; don't reap what volunteers itself in the fields; don't harvest the untended vines because it's the Jubilee and a holy year for you. You're permitted to eat from whatever volunteers itself in the fields. ¹³ "In this year of Jubilee everyone returns home to his family property. ¹⁴"If you sell or buy property from one of your countrymen, don't cheat him. Calculate the purchase price on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. He is obliged to set the sale price on the basis of the number of harvests remaining until the next Jubilee. The more years left, the more money; you can raise the price. But the fewer years left, the less money; decrease the price. What you are buying and selling in fact is the number of crops you're going to harvest. Don't cheat each other. Fear your God. I am God , your God. ¹⁸"Keep my decrees and observe my laws and you will live secure in the land. The land will yield its fruit; you will have all you can eat and will live safe and secure. Do I hear you ask, ‘What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we don't plant or harvest?' I assure you, I will send such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. While you plant in the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and continue until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: As it is here graciously promised, that the sixth year was to bring forth fruits for three years, not merely for two, it is evident that both the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee were distinctly provided for. They were not to sow from the sixth to the eighth year, omitting two seed times; nor reap from the sixth to the ninth, omitting two harvests. No legislator, unless conscious of being divinely commissioned, would have committed himself by enacting such a law as this; nor would any people have submitted to receive it, except in consequence of the fullest conviction that a divine authority had dictated it. It therefore stands as a proof that Moses acted by the express direction of the Almighty, and that the people were fully persuaded of the reality of his divine mission by the miracles he wrought. Genesis 26:12, Genesis 41:47, Exodus 16:29, Deuteronomy 28:3, Deuteronomy 28:8, Psalms 133:3, Proverbs 10:22, 2 Corinthians 9:10

three years: Leviticus 25:4, Leviticus 25:8-11

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:5 - prepare Leviticus 26:4 - the land 2 Chronicles 31:10 - the Lord Psalms 42:8 - command Matthew 6:33 - and all Luke 13:7 - three Hebrews 6:7 - receiveth

Cross-References

Genesis 11:30
Sarai was barren; she had no children.

Genesis 25:3
Jokshan had Sheba and Dedan. Dedan's descendants were the Asshurim, the Letushim, and the Leummim.

Genesis 25:12
This is the family tree of Ishmael son of Abraham, the son that Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham.

Genesis 25:19
This is the family tree of Isaac son of Abraham: Abraham had Isaac. Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan Aram. She was the sister of Laban the Aramean.

1 Samuel 1:27
Hannah Pours Out Her Heart to God There once was a man who lived in Ramathaim. He was descended from the old Zuph family in the Ephraim hills. His name was Elkanah. (He was connected with the Zuphs from Ephraim through his father Jeroham, his grandfather Elihu, and his great-grandfather Tohu.) He had two wives. The first was Hannah; the second was Peninnah. Peninnah had children; Hannah did not. Every year this man went from his hometown up to Shiloh to worship and offer a sacrifice to God -of-the-Angel-Armies. Eli and his two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, served as the priests of God there. When Elkanah sacrificed, he passed helpings from the sacrificial meal around to his wife Peninnah and all her children, but he always gave an especially generous helping to Hannah because he loved her so much, and because God had not given her children. But her rival wife taunted her cruelly, rubbing it in and never letting her forget that God had not given her children. This went on year after year. Every time she went to the sanctuary of God she could expect to be taunted. Hannah was reduced to tears and had no appetite. Her husband Elkanah said, "Oh, Hannah, why are you crying? Why aren't you eating? And why are you so upset? Am I not of more worth to you than ten sons?" So Hannah ate. Then she pulled herself together, slipped away quietly, and entered the sanctuary. The priest Eli was on duty at the entrance to God 's Temple in the customary seat. Crushed in soul, Hannah prayed to God and cried and cried—inconsolably. Then she made a vow: Oh, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, If you'll take a good, hard look at my pain, If you'll quit neglecting me and go into action for me By giving me a son, I'll give him completely, unreservedly to you. I'll set him apart for a life of holy discipline. It so happened that as she continued in prayer before God , Eli was watching her closely. Hannah was praying in her heart, silently. Her lips moved, but no sound was heard. Eli jumped to the conclusion that she was drunk. He approached her and said, "You're drunk! How long do you plan to keep this up? Sober up, woman!" Hannah said, "Oh no, sir—please! I'm a woman hard used. I haven't been drinking. Not a drop of wine or beer. The only thing I've been pouring out is my heart, pouring it out to God . Don't for a minute think I'm a bad woman. It's because I'm so desperately unhappy and in such pain that I've stayed here so long." Eli answered her, "Go in peace. And may the God of Israel give you what you have asked of him." "Think well of me—and pray for me!" she said, and went her way. Then she ate heartily, her face radiant. Up before dawn, they worshiped God and returned home to Ramah. Elkanah slept with Hannah his wife, and God began making the necessary arrangements in response to what she had asked. Before the year was out, Hannah had conceived and given birth to a son. She named him Samuel, explaining, "I asked God for him." When Elkanah next took his family on their annual trip to Shiloh to worship God , offering sacrifices and keeping his vow, Hannah didn't go. She told her husband, "After the child is weaned, I'll bring him myself and present him before God —and that's where he'll stay, for good." Elkanah said to his wife, "Do what you think is best. Stay home until you have weaned him. Yes! Let God complete what he has begun!" So she did. She stayed home and nursed her son until she had weaned him. Then she took him up to Shiloh, bringing also the makings of a generous sacrificial meal—a prize bull, flour, and wine. The child was so young to be sent off! They first butchered the bull, then brought the child to Eli. Hannah said, "Excuse me, sir. Would you believe that I'm the very woman who was standing before you at this very spot, praying to God ? I prayed for this child, and God gave me what I asked for. And now I have dedicated him to God . He's dedicated to God for life." Then and there, they worshiped God .

Ezra 8:23
So we fasted and prayed about these concerns. And he listened.

Psalms 127:3
Don't you see that children are God 's best gift? the fruit of the womb his generous legacy? Like a warrior's fistful of arrows are the children of a vigorous youth. Oh, how blessed are you parents, with your quivers full of children! Your enemies don't stand a chance against you; you'll sweep them right off your doorstep.

Psalms 145:19
He does what's best for those who fear him— hears them call out, and saves them.

Proverbs 10:24
The nightmares of the wicked come true; what the good people desire, they get.

Isaiah 45:11
Thus God , The Holy of Israel, Israel's Maker, says: "Do you question who or what I'm making? Are you telling me what I can or cannot do? I made earth, and I created man and woman to live on it. I handcrafted the skies and direct all the constellations in their turnings. And now I've got Cyrus on the move. I've rolled out the red carpet before him. He will build my city. He will bring home my exiles. I didn't hire him to do this. I told him. I, God -of-the-Angel-Armies."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year,.... Upon their fields, vineyards, and oliveyards, and make them exceeding fruitful, more than in other years; all fruitfulness at any time depends upon the blessing of God, and follows upon it, but is more visible and observable when there is an exceeding great plenty:

and it shall bring forth fruit for three years; and thus God blessed the sixth year with such a plentiful increase as was sufficient for time to come, until a new crop was gathered in; as he had blessed the sixth day with a double portion of manna, for the supply of the seventh.