Leviticus 25:20

World English Bible (2000)

If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"

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  • Lev 25:4 : 4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
  • Luke 12:29 : 29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
  • Phil 4:6 : 6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
  • Heb 13:5-6 : 5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you." 6 So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
  • Num 11:4 : 4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give us flesh to eat?
  • Num 11:13 : 13 Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'
  • 2 Kgs 6:15-17 : 15 When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?" 16 He answered, "Don't be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them." 17 Elisha prayed, and said, "Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see." Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?" He said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."
  • 2 Chr 25:9 : 9 Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?" The man of God answered, "Yahweh is able to give you much more than this."
  • Ps 78:19-20 : 19 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? 20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"
  • Isa 1:2 : 2 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
  • Matt 6:25-34 : 25 Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they? 27 "Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan? 28 Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin, 29 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith? 31 "Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?' 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.
  • Matt 8:26 : 26 He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 25:21-22
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    85%

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

    22 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.

  • Lev 25:2-8
    7 verses
    84%

    2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.

    3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;

    4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

    5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

    6 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

    7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

    8 "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.

  • Exod 23:10-11
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    10 "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

    11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

  • Lev 19:23-25
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    81%

    23 "'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.

    24 But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh.

    25 In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 25:19
    80%

    19 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

  • Lev 25:11-12
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    11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.

    12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

  • Isa 37:30
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    30 This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
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    29 "'This shall be the sign to you: You shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.

  • Lev 26:4-5
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    4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

    5 Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

  • Deut 14:22
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    22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year.

  • Ps 107:37
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    37 sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

  • Lev 19:9-10
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    9 "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

    10 You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 26:20
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    20 and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

  • Exod 34:21-22
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    21 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

    22 "You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.

  • Exod 16:26-27
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    26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."

    27 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

  • Gen 45:6
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    6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

  • Exod 23:16
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    16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.

  • Isa 30:23
    73%

    23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

  • Deut 28:38
    72%

    38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

  • Neh 10:31
    72%

    31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

  • Mic 6:15
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    15 You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.

  • Gen 41:30
    72%

    30 There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

  • Lev 27:17
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    17 If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

  • Lev 26:10
    72%

    10 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.

  • Lev 25:15-16
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    72%

    15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

    16 According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

  • Hab 3:17
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    17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

  • Deut 22:9
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    9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

  • Mal 3:11
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    11 I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," says Yahweh of Armies.

  • Gen 41:36
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    36 The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."

  • Ezek 36:30
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    30 I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.

  • Deut 15:9
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    9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

  • Deut 14:28
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    28 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:

  • Gen 41:47
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    47 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.

  • Lev 26:34
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    34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.