While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
- KJV And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
- NKJV And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.
- NASB When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the produce, eating the old until the ninth year when its produce comes in.
- NLT When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.
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Quick answer
Israel would sow in the eighth year while still eating from the old stored harvest until the new crop came in. God's earlier provision carried them through.
Overview
The abundance of the sixth year would last well into the eighth and ninth years, bridging the gap until the new harvest. This concrete promise assured Israel that obedience in the Sabbath year would never leave them in want. It strengthens the lesson that God's provision is sufficient and timely for those who obey in faith.
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Cross-references · 4
- Lev 26:10You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
- 2 Kgs 19:29And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Josh 5:11–12The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.
- Isa 37:30And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
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