Leviticus 25:3-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:1-55

The sabbatical year was instituted not for any supposed physical benefit accruing from it to the land, but, first, as serving for a link between the sabbath and the jubilee by means of the sacred number seven—the sabbatical year being the seventh year, and the jubilee being the year following the seven-times-seventh year; and secondly, and chiefly, as enforcing the lesson of the weekly sabbath in a manner that could not be overlooked, and symbolically, teaching the universal application of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:2-7

The sabbath of the seventh year could only be observed when ye come into the land which I give you. The habit of making no distraction in the seventh year during the whole of the life in the wilderness may have led to the neglect of the law after the settlement in Canaan. Another excuse for the neglect may have been a difficulty which would have presented itself of fixing the date from which to count up to the seventh year, as different parts of the land were conquered at different times.... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 25:3

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 25:4

A sabbath of rest - See Leviticus 23:3 note. The express prohibition of sowing and reaping, and of pruning and gathering, affords a presumption in favor of the sabbatical year beginning, like the year of Jubilee Leviticus 25:9, in the first month of the civil year Leviticus 23:24, the seventh of the sacred year, when the land was cleared of the crops of the preceding year.The great material advantage of the institution must have been the increased fertility of the soil from its lying fallow one... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 25:5

Vine undressed - That is, “unpruned”; literally “Nazarite vine”, the figure being taken from the unshorn locks of the Nazarite. Numbers 6:5. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 25:6

The sabbath of the land shall be meat for you - That is, the produce of the untilled land (its “increase,” Leviticus 25:7) shall be food for the whole of you in common, rich and poor without distinction Exodus 23:11. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 25:4-5

Leviticus 25:4-5. A sabbath of rest to the land They were neither to do any work about it, nor expect any harvest from it. All yearly labours were to be intermitted in the seventh year, as much as daily labours on the seventh day. Of its own accord From the grains that fell out of the ears the last reaping time. Thou shalt not reap That is, as thy own peculiarly, but only so as others may reap it with thee, for present food. Undressed Not cut off by thee, but suffered to grow for the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 25:6

Leviticus 25:6. The sabbath of the land That is, the accidental crop that grew in the sabbatical year. Shall be meat for you For all promiscuously, to take food from thence as you need. It is true the land would produce little corn without being tilled and sown, but the vines and other fruit-trees which abounded in the country, even without pruning, would yield a considerable increase, so that the poorer sort might thus enjoy many comforts, together with rest, of which they were... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:1-34

Sabbatical and jubilee years (25:1-34)When the Israelites conquered Canaan and divided it among their tribes and families, they were not to be selfish or greedy in their use of the land. Just as people and their working animals were to rest one day in seven, so the land was to rest one year in seven. The lack of cultivation during this seventh or sabbatical year gave people the opportunity to recognize in a special way that God was the rightful owner of the land. At the same time it gave the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 25:4

sabbath of rest. See note on Exodus 16:23 . read more

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