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Leviticus 25:3

Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Grape;   Holiday;   Pruning;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture;   Agriculture-Horticulture;   Pruning;   Vineyards;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;   Holy Land;   Vine, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jubilee;   Poor;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Nature;   Sabbath;   Sabbatical year;   Seven;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jubilee, Year of;   Sabbath;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Festivals, Religious;   Sabbatical Year;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Sabbatical Year;   Year;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Economic Life;   Festivals;   Field;   Leviticus;   Number Systems and Number Symbolism;   Pentateuch;   Sabbatical Year;   Seventy Years;   Vine;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Poverty;   Priests and Levites;   Sabbatical Year;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Vine, Vineyard;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Debt, Debtor (2);   Numbers;   Poverty (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jubilee;   Sabbatical Year;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Feasts;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jubilee;   Year sabbatical;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Poor;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Weeks;   Year;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Calendar;   Sabbath and Feasts;   Time Given to Religion;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Agrarian Laws;   Feasts, and Fasts;   Law in the Old Testament;   Leviticus;   Sabbatical Year;   Vine;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Agriculture;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abrogation of Laws;   Mishnah;   Shebi'it;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in the fruits of it;
King James Version
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
Lexham English Bible
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and you shall gather its yield.
New Century Version
You may plant seed in your field for six years, and you may trim your vineyards for six years and bring in their fruits.
Amplified Bible
'For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop.
New American Standard Bible
'For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Sixe yeeres thou shalt sowe thy field, and sixe yeeres thou shalt cut thy vineyarde, and gather the fruite thereof.
Legacy Standard Bible
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce,
Contemporary English Version
You may raise grain and grapes for six years,
Complete Jewish Bible
Six years you will sow your field; six years you will prune your grapevines and gather their produce.
Darby Translation
Six years shalt thou sow thy field, and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof,
Easy-to-Read Version
You will plant seed in your field for six years. You will trim your vineyards for six years and bring in its fruits.
English Standard Version
For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits,
George Lamsa Translation
Six years you shall sow your fields and six years you shall prune your vineyards and six years you shall gather in your produce;
Good News Translation
You shall plant your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather your crops for six years.
Christian Standard Bible®
You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.
Literal Translation
You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and shall gather its produce.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that thou sowe thy felde sixe yeares, and sixe yeares cut yi vynes, and gather in the frutes.
American Standard Version
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof;
Bible in Basic English
For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Sixe yeres thou shalt sowe thy fielde, and sixe yeres thou shalt cut thy vineyarde, and gather in the fruite therof.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof.
King James Version (1611)
Sixe yeeres thou shalt sow thy field, and sixe yeeres thou shalt prune thy Uineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shall prune thy vine, and gather in its fruit.
English Revised Version
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof;
Berean Standard Bible
For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
sixe yeeris thou schalt sowe thi feeld, and sixe yeeris thou schalt kitte thi vyner, and thou schalt gadere the fruytis ther of;
Young's Literal Translation
`Six years thou dost sow thy field, and six years thou dost prune thy vineyard, and hast gathered its increase,
Update Bible Version
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof;
Webster's Bible Translation
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
World English Bible
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in the fruits of it;
New King James Version
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit;
New Living Translation
For six years you may plant your fields and prune your vineyards and harvest your crops,
New Life Bible
Six years you will plant seeds in your field. Six years you will take care of your vines and gather their fruit.
New Revised Standard
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in their yield;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Six years, shalt thou sow thy field, and, six years, shalt thou prune thy vineyard, - and gather the increase thereof;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof.
Revised Standard Version
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop,

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai: 2 "Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath to the Lord . 3 Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce, 4 but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest—a Sabbath to the Lord . You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard. 5 You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest. 6 You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat—you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, 7 your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land—all its produce will be for you to eat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:3 - blessed Exodus 23:10 - six years Leviticus 23:14 - eat

Cross-References

2 Samuel 2:9
He appointed him king over Gilead, the Geshurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and all Israel.
1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to challenge him with difficult questions.
Job 6:19
The caravans of Tema looked intently for these streams; the traveling merchants of Sheba hoped for them.
Psalms 72:10
The kings of Tarshish and the coastlands will offer gifts; the kings of Sheba and Seba will bring tribute.
Jeremiah 25:23
the people of Dedan, Tema, Buz, all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples;
Jeremiah 49:8
Turn and flee! Take up refuge in remote places, you people who live in Dedan. For I will bring disaster on the descendants of Esau. I have decided it is time for me to punish them.
Ezekiel 25:13
So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die by the sword.
Ezekiel 27:6
They made your oars from oaks of Bashan; they made your deck with cypresses from the Kittean isles.
Ezekiel 27:20
Dedan was your client in saddlecloths for riding.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Six years thou shalt sow thy field,.... Under which is comprehended everything relating to agriculture, both before and after sowing, as dunging the land, ploughing and harrowing it, treading the corn, reaping and gathering it in; see Exodus 23:10;

and six years thou shall prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; which is not to be restrained to vineyards only, but to be extended to oliveyards, orchards and gardens, and to the planting and cultivating of them, and gathering in the fruits of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Vineyard - Rather, fruit-garden. The Hebrew word is a general one for a plantation of fruit-trees.


 
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