Leviticus 25:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

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  • Lev 25:4 : 4 But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.
  • Luke 12:29 : 29 And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.
  • Phil 4:6 : 6 Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.
  • Heb 13:5-6 : 5 Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times. 6 So that we say with a good heart, The Lord is my helper; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?
  • Num 11:4 : 4 And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?
  • Num 11:13 : 13 Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.
  • 2 Kgs 6:15-17 : 15 Now the servant of the man of God, having got up early and gone out, saw an army with horses and carriages of war all round the town. And the servant said to him, O my master, what are we to do? 16 And he said in answer, Have no fear; those who are with us are more than those who are with them. 17 Then Elisha made a prayer to the Lord, saying, Lord, let his eyes be open so that he may see. And the Lord made the young man's eyes open; and he saw that all the mountain was full of horses and carriages of fire round Elisha.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.
  • 2 Chr 25:9 : 9 Then Amaziah said to the man of God, But what is to be done about the hundred talents which I have given for the armed band of Israel? And the man of God in answer said, God is able to give you much more than this.
  • Ps 78:19-20 : 19 They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land? 20 See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?
  • Isa 1:2 : 2 Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.
  • Matt 6:25-34 : 25 So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing? 26 See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they? 27 And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller? 28 And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread: 29 But I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30 But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith? 31 Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed? 32 Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things: 33 But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition. 34 Then have no care for tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Take the trouble of the day as it comes.
  • Matt 8:26 : 26 And he said to them, Why are you full of fear, O you of little faith? Then he got up and gave orders to the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 25:21-22
    2 verses
    85%

    21 Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

    22 And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready.

  • Lev 25:2-8
    7 verses
    84%

    2 Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

    3 For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;

    4 But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.

    5 That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land.

    6 And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

    7 And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

    8 And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years;

  • Exod 23:10-11
    2 verses
    82%

    10 For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;

    11 But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.

  • Lev 19:23-25
    3 verses
    81%

    23 And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.

    24 And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord.

    25 But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 25:19
    80%

    19 And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.

  • Lev 25:11-12
    2 verses
    80%

    11 Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines.

    12 For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field.

  • Isa 37:30
    79%

    30 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
    79%

    29 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself; and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed and get in the grain and make vine-gardens and take of their fruit.

  • Lev 26:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4 Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

    5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

  • Deut 14:22
    75%

    22 Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

  • Ps 107:37
    74%

    37 And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

  • Lev 19:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain be cut from the edges of the field, or take up what has been dropped on the earth after the getting in of the grain.

    10 And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 26:20
    74%

    20 And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

  • Exod 34:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

    22 And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.

  • Exod 16:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26 For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.

    27 But still on the seventh day some of the people went out to get it, and there was not any.

  • Gen 45:6
    73%

    6 For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.

  • Exod 23:16
    73%

    16 And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.

  • Isa 30:23
    73%

    23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

  • Deut 28:38
    72%

    38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

  • Neh 10:31
    72%

    31 And if the peoples of the lands come to do trade in goods or food on the Sabbath day, that we would do no trade with them on the Sabbath or on a holy day: and that in the seventh year we would take no payment from any debtor.

  • Mic 6:15
    72%

    15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

  • Gen 41:30
    72%

    30 And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

  • Lev 27:17
    72%

    17 If he gives his field from the year of Jubilee, the value will be fixed by your decision.

  • Lev 26:10
    72%

    10 And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new;

  • Lev 25:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce.

    16 If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.

  • Hab 3:17
    71%

    17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • Deut 22:9
    71%

    9 Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

  • Mal 3:11
    71%

    11 And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies

  • Gen 41:36
    71%

    36 And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.

  • Ezek 36:30
    71%

    30 And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.

  • Deut 15:9
    71%

    9 And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

  • Deut 14:28
    71%

    28 At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:

  • Gen 41:47
    71%

    47 Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.

  • Lev 26:34
    71%

    34 Then will the land take pleasure in its Sabbaths while it is waste and you are living in the land of your haters; then will the land have rest.