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Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
Leviticus 26:5 · Berean Standard Bible
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  • WEB Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
  • KJV And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
  • NKJV Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
  • NASB Indeed, your threshing season will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. So you will eat your food to the full and live securely in your land.
  • NLT Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your own land.

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Quick answer

Harvests would be so plentiful that threshing and harvest would overlap and bread would be abundant. God promises overflowing provision and security.

Overview

The imagery of one harvest running into the next pictures uninterrupted abundance. Eating to the full and dwelling safely sum up the security of life under God's blessing. Such fullness foreshadows the abundant life and lasting security found in Christ, who satisfies the deepest hunger of His people.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Amos 9:13“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
  • Joel 2:26You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.
  • Joel 2:19And the LORD answered His people: “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and by them you will be satisfied. I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.
  • Lev 25:18–19You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.
  • Deut 11:15And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
  • Ezek 34:25–28I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
  • Prov 1:33But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”
  • Ps 91:1–14He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
  • 1 Tim 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
  • Matt 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
  • John 4:35–36Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
  • Ps 90:1A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.
  • Ps 46:1–7For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.
  • 1 Pet 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • Job 11:18–19You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.
  • Jer 23:6In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
  • Acts 14:17Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
  • Matt 9:37–38Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
  • Exod 16:8And Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”
  • Prov 18:10The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

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Christ at the center

Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.

How Leviticus 26:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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