Leviticus 25 · Verse 21

Leviticus 25:21

Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
Leviticus 25:21, King James Version

Leviticus 25:21 in other translations

BSBBut I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.
WEBthen I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.
ASVthen I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
YLTthen I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it hath made the increase for three years;
DARBYthen I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, that it may bring forth produce for three years;
BBEThen I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.
WebsterThen I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

What does Leviticus 25:21 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 25:21-22
21-22. I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years, &c.--A provision was made, by the special interposition of God, to supply the deficiency of food which would otherwise have resulted from the suspension of all labor during the sabbatic year. The sixth year was to yield a miraculous supply for three continuous years. And the remark is applicable to the year of Jubilee as well as the sabbatic year. (See allusions to this extraordinary provision in 2Ki 19:29; Is 37:30). None but a legislator who was conscious of acting under divine authority would have staked his character on so singular an enactment as that of the sabbatic year; and none but a people who had witnessed the fulfilment of the divine promise would have been induced to suspend their agricultural preparations on a recurrence of a periodical Jubilee.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 25:8-22

The word "jubilee" signifies a peculiarly animated sound of the silver trumpets. This sound was to be made on the evening of the great day of atonement; for the proclamation of gospel liberty and salvation results from the sacrifice of the Redeemer. It was provided that the lands should not be sold away from their families. They could only be disposed of, as it were, by leases till the year of jubilee, and then…

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Leviticus 25:21 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְצִוִּ֤יתִיve.tzi.Vi.tiand I will commandH6680
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
בִּרְכָתִי֙bir.kha.Tiblessing myH1293
לָכֶ֔םla.Khemfor <the> you
בַּשָּׁנָ֖הba.sha.Nahin the yearH8141
הַשִּׁשִּׁ֑יתha.shi.Shit<the> sixthH8345
וְעָשָׂת֙ve.'a.Satand it will makeH6213
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַתְּבוּאָ֔הha.te.vu.'Ahthe produceH8393
לִשְׁלֹ֖שׁlish.Loshfor [the] threeH7969
הַשָּׁנִֽים\׃ha.sha.Nimthe yearsH8141

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Leviticus 25:21

  • Deuteronomy 28:8

    The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

  • Proverbs 10:22

    The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

  • 2 Corinthians 9:10

    Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

  • Psalms 133:3

    As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

  • Genesis 41:47

    And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

  • Genesis 26:12

    Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

  • Deuteronomy 28:3

    Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

  • Exodus 16:29

    See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

  • Leviticus 25:4

    But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

  • Leviticus 25:8-11

    And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will.As it is here graciously promised, that the sixth year was to bring forth fruits for three years, not merely for two, it is evident that both the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee were distinctly provided for. They were not to sow from the sixth to the eighth year, omitting two seed times; nor reap from the sixth to the ninth, omitting two harvests. No legislator, unless conscious of being divinely commissioned, would have committed himself by enacting such a law as this; nor would any people have submitted to receive it, except in consequence of the fullest conviction that a divine authority had dictated it. It therefore stands as a proof that Moses acted by the express direction of the Almighty, and that the people were fully persuaded of the reality of his divine mission by the miracles he wrought.
Ge 26:12; 41:47; Ex 16:29; De 28:3,8; Ps 133:3; Pr 10:22; 2Co 9:10
three years.
4,8-11

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Context

  • Leviticus 25:20

    And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

  • Leviticus 25:21

    Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

  • Leviticus 25:22

    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.

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Leviticus 25:21 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Entonces yo os enviaré mi bendición el sexto año, y hará fruto por tres años.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		je commanderai que ma bénédiction soit sur vous en la sixième année, et elle donnera le produit de trois ans.
German
Elberfelder 1871		ich werde euch ja im sechsten Jahre meinen Segen entbieten, daß es den Ertrag für drei Jahre bringe;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		dabo benedictionem meam vobis anno sexto, et faciet fructus trium annorum: