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Exodus 23:10

Sixe yeer thou schalt sowe thi lond, and thou schalt gadre fruytis therof;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Sabbatic Year;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture;   Agriculture-Horticulture;   Harvest;   The Topic Concordance - Sabbath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sabbatical Year;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Justice;   Sabbatical year;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Work;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Festivals, Religious;   Sabbatical Year;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Year;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Festivals;   Loan;   Pentateuch;   Sabbatical Year;   Vine;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Agriculture;   Canon of the Old Testament;   Covenant, Book of the;   Debt;   Ethics;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sabbatical Year;   Ten Commandments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Debt, Debtor (2);   Poverty (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sabbatical Year;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jubilee, the Year of;   Law of Moses;   Sabbatical Year;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Agrarian Laws;   Covenant, the Book of the;   Law in the Old Testament;   Poor;   Sabbatical Year;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Job;   Pentecost;   Plague;   Shebi'it;  

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,
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

10 Sixe yeer thou schalt sowe thi lond, and thou schalt gadre fruytis therof; 11 forsothe in the seuenthe yeer thou schalt leeue it, and schalt make to reste, that the pore men of thi puple ete, and what euer is residue, the beestis of the feeld ete; so thou schalt do in thi vyner, and in place of olyue trees. 12 Sixe dayes thou schalt worche, in the seuenthe dai thou schalt ceesse, that thin oxe and asse reste, and the sone of thin handmaide, and the comelyng be refreischid. 13 Kepe ye alle thingis, whiche Y seide to you; and ye schulen not swere bi the name of alien goddis, nether it schal be herd of youre mouth. 14 In thre tymes bi alle yeeris ye schulen halewe feestis to me. 15 Thou schalt kepe the solempnyte of therf looues; seuene daies thou schalt ete therf breed, as Y comaundide to thee, in the tyme of monethe of newe thingis, whanne thou yedist out of Egipt; thou schalt not appere voide in my siyt. 16 And thou schalt kepe the solempnete of the monethe of the firste thingis of thi werk, what euer thingis thou hast sowe in the feeld. Also thou schalt kepe the solempnyte in the goyng out of the yeer, whanne thou hast gaderid all thi fruytis of the feeld. 17 Thries in the yeer al thi male kynde schal appere bifore thi Lord God. 18 Thou schalt not offre the blood of thi slayn sacrifice on sour douy; nether the fatnesse of my solempnete schal dwelle til to the morewtid. 19 Thou schalt bere the firste thingis of the fruytis of thi lond in to the hows of thi Lord God. Thou schalt not sethe a kide in the mylke of his modir.

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
Forsothe Sare lyuede an hundrid and seuene and twenti yeer,
Genesis 23:3
And whanne he hadde rise fro the office of the deed bodi, he spak to the sones of Heth, and seide,
Genesis 23:4
Y am a comelyng and a pilgrym anentis you; yyue ye to me riyt of sepulcre with you, that Y birie my deed body.
Genesis 23:18
while the sones of Heth seiyen and alle men that entriden bi the yate of that citee.
Genesis 24:10
And he took ten camels of the floc of his lord, and yede forth, and bar with him of alle the goodis of his lord; and he yede forth, and cam to Mesopotanye, to the citee of Nachor.
Genesis 34:20
And thei entriden in to the yate of the citee, and spaken to the puple,
Genesis 34:24
And alle men assentiden, and alle malis weren circumcidid.
Job 29:7
whanne Y yede forth to the yate of the citee, and in the street thei maden redi a chaier to me.
Isaiah 28:6
and a spirit of doom to hym that sittith on the trone, and strengthe to hem that turnen ayen fro batel to the yate.
Matthew 9:1
And Jhesus wente vp in to a boot, and passide ouer the watir, and cam in to his citee.

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.”


 
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