Leviticus 25:7

Leviticus 25:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
• New International Version (NIV)as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.
• English Standard Version (ESV)and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food.
• New King James Version (NKJV)for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food.

Context of Leviticus 25:7

5Whatever reseeds itself (uncultivated) in your harvest you shall not reap, nor shall you gather the grapes from your uncultivated vine, it shall be a year of sabbatical rest for the land. 6And all of you shall have for food whatever the [untilled] land produces during its Sabbath year; yourself, and your male and female slaves, your hired servant, and the foreigners who reside among you, even your domestic animals and the [wild] animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat. 8‘You are also to count off seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven Sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years. 9Then you shall sound the ram’s horn everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month (almost October); on the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout your land.

Leviticus 25:7 word by word

וְלִ֨בְהֶמְתְּךָ֔ וְלַֽחַיָּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּאַרְצֶ֑ךָ תִּהְיֶ֥ה כָל־תְּבוּאָתָ֖הּ לֶאֱכֹֽל׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And for thy cattleבְּהֵמָהbehêmâh · animalH929
• and for the beastחַיָּהchay · living thingH2416
• in thy landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• shall all the increaseתְּבוּאָהtebû'âh · produceH8393
• thereof be meatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398

Commentaries on Leviticus 25:7

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-7during the Sabbath year, people did not formally farm or harvest the land. Landowners could gather what naturally grew for their daily household needs. They left any uneaten food for the poor and foreigners (Exodus 23:10–11). What remained provided food for both wild and domestic animals. See also Exodus 21:2; Deuteronomy 15:1–11.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-72-4. When ye come into the land which I give you--It has been questioned on what year, after the occupation of Canaan, the sabbatic year began to be observed. Some think it was the seventh year after their entrance. But others, considering that as the first six years were spent in the conquest and division of the land (Jos 5:12), and that the sabbatical year was to be observed after six years of agriculture, maintain that the observance did not commence…Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 25:7

• Agriculture
• Holiday
• Sanitation

In the dictionaries

• Accord
• Agriculture
• Beast
• Compel
• Decay
• Festivals, Religious
• Fill
• Increase
• Redeem
• Redemption

Commentaries on Leviticus 25

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings