Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. New Living Translation For six years you may plant your fields and prune your vineyards and harvest your crops, English Standard Version For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, Berean Standard Bible For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops. King James Bible Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; New King James Version Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit; New American Standard Bible For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce, NASB 1995 ‘Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, NASB 1977 ‘Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, Legacy Standard Bible Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce, Amplified Bible For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop. Christian Standard Bible You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years. Holman Christian Standard Bible You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years. American Standard Version Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof; Contemporary English Version You may raise grain and grapes for six years, English Revised Version Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof; GOD'S WORD® Translation Then, for six years you may plant crops in your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather what they produce. Good News Translation You shall plant your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather your crops for six years. International Standard Version For six years you may plant your fields, and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce. Majority Standard Bible For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops. NET Bible Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce, New Heart English Bible Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits; Webster's Bible Translation Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; World English Bible You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits; Literal Translations Literal Standard Version[For] six years you sow your field, and [for] six years you prune your vineyard, and have gathered its increase, Young's Literal Translation 'Six years thou dost sow thy field, and six years thou dost prune thy vineyard, and hast gathered its increase, Smith's Literal Translation Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather its produce; Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleSix years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof: Catholic Public Domain Version For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall care for your vineyard, and you shall gather its fruits. New American Bible For six years you may sow your field, and for six years prune your vineyard, gathering in their produce. New Revised Standard Version Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in their yield; Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleSix years you shall sow your fields and six years you shall prune your vineyards and six years you shall gather in your produce; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Six years you shall sow your fields and six years you shall prune your vineyards and six years you shall be gathering your produce; OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof. Brenton Septuagint Translation Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shall prune thy vine, and gather in its fruit. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Sabbatical Year…2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD. 3For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops. 4But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.… Cross References Exodus 23:10-11 For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce, / but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove. Deuteronomy 15:1-2 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. / This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed. Deuteronomy 31:10-11 Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles, / when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel. 2 Chronicles 36:21 So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah. Jeremiah 34:14 Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear. Nehemiah 10:31 When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow and will cancel every debt. Isaiah 37:30 And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. Ezekiel 46:17 But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs. Genesis 2:2-3 And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. / Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished. Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.” Matthew 6:25-34 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? / Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? / Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? ... Luke 4:18-19 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, / to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Hebrews 4:9-10 There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. / For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His. Romans 8:21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery. Treasury of Scripture Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; Jump to Previous Care Crop Crops Field Fields Fruit Fruits Gather Gathered Increase Produce Prune Seed Sow Thereof Vines Vineyard VineyardsJump to Next Care Crop Crops Field Fields Fruit Fruits Gather Gathered Increase Produce Prune Seed Sow Thereof Vines Vineyard VineyardsLeviticus 25 1. the Sabbath of the seventh year8. The jubilee in the fiftieth year 14. Of oppression 18. A blessing of obedience 23. The redemption of land 29. Of houses 35. Compassion to the poor 39. The usage of bondmen 47. The redemption of servants For six years The phrase "for six years" sets a specific period of labor and cultivation, reflecting the biblical principle of work and rest. In the Hebrew context, the number six often symbolizes human effort and labor, as seen in the six days of creation where God worked before resting on the seventh. This period of six years is a divine allowance for human activity, emphasizing the importance of diligent work and stewardship of the land. It also foreshadows the Sabbath principle, which is deeply rooted in the rhythm of creation and the covenant relationship between God and His people. you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops The fruit thereof.--That is, of the land which is mentioned in the preceding verse, and which includes fields, vineyards, olive-gardens, &c. (See Exodus 23:11.) Hebrew For sixשֵׁ֤שׁ (šêš) Number - feminine singular construct Strong's 8337: Six (a cardinal number) years שָׁנִים֙ (šā·nîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 8141: A year you may sow תִּזְרַ֣ע (tiz·ra‘) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify your field שָׂדֶ֔ךָ (śā·ḏe·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 7704: Field, land and prune תִּזְמֹ֣ר (tiz·mōr) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 2168: To trim, prune your vineyard כַּרְמֶ֑ךָ (kar·me·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3754: A garden, vineyard and gather וְאָסַפְתָּ֖ (wə·’ā·sap̄·tā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 622: To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove its crops. תְּבוּאָתָֽהּ׃ (tə·ḇū·’ā·ṯāh) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 8393: Product, revenue Links Leviticus 25:3 NIVLeviticus 25:3 NLT Leviticus 25:3 ESV Leviticus 25:3 NASB Leviticus 25:3 KJV Leviticus 25:3 BibleApps.com Leviticus 25:3 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 25:3 Chinese Bible Leviticus 25:3 French Bible Leviticus 25:3 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 25:3 Six years you shall sow your field (Le Lv Lev.) |