Leviticus 25:7
New International Version
as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

New Living Translation
Your livestock and the wild animals in your land will also be allowed to eat what the land produces.

English Standard Version
and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food.

Berean Standard Bible
and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.

King James Bible
And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

New King James Version
for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food.

New American Standard Bible
Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its produce to eat.

NASB 1995
‘Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat.

NASB 1977
‘Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat.

Legacy Standard Bible
Even your cattle and the beasts that are in your land shall have all its produce to eat.

Amplified Bible
even your domestic animals and the [wild] animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat.

Christian Standard Bible
All of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land.”

American Standard Version
And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.

English Revised Version
and for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
your animals, and the wild animals in your land. Everything the land produces will be yours to eat.

Good News Translation
your domestic animals, and the wild animals in your fields. Everything that it produces may be eaten.

International Standard Version
The cattle and the wild animals in your land—everything it produces—are for your food.

Majority Standard Bible
and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.

NET Bible
your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land--all its produce will be for you to eat.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase of it be food.

World English Bible
For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and for your livestock, and for the beast which [is] in your land, is all its increase for [them] to eat.

Young's Literal Translation
and to thy cattle, and to the beast which is in thy land, is all thine increase for food.

Smith's Literal Translation
And to thy cattle, and to the beast which is in thy land shall all its produce be for food.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.

Catholic Public Domain Version
all that grows on its own shall provide food for your beasts and cattle.

New American Bible
and likewise for your livestock and for the wild animals on your land.

New Revised Standard Version
for your livestock also, and for the wild animals in your land all its yield shall be for food.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And for your cattle and for the beasts that are in your land shall all its increase be for food to you.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And for your domestic animals and for the beasts that are in your land; you will have all the crops for food.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
and for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And for thy cattle, and for the wild beats that are in thy land, shall every fruit of it be for food.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Sabbatical Year
6Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you, 7and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.

Cross References
Exodus 23:11
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 15:7-11
If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother. / Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs. / Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin. ...

Deuteronomy 24:19-21
If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. / When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. / When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

Isaiah 58:6-7
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke? / Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

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.

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.

Ezekiel 34:2-3
“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock? / You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

Ezekiel 34:18-19
Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear waters? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? / Why must My flock feed on what your feet have trampled, and drink what your feet have muddied?’

Matthew 6:26
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?

Matthew 25:35-40
For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, / I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’ / Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink? ...

Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!

Luke 14:13-14
But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind, / and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Luke 16:19-31
Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor. / And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores / and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. ...

Acts 4:34-35
There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the proceeds from the sales, / and lay them at the apostles’ feet for distribution to anyone as he had need.


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Leviticus 25
1. the Sabbath of the seventh year
8. 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














and for your livestock
The Hebrew word for "livestock" is "בְּהֵמָה" (behemah), which generally refers to domesticated animals. In the context of Leviticus 25, this phrase emphasizes God's provision not only for humans but also for the animals that serve them. The Sabbatical year, or Shemitah, is a time when the land rests, and yet God ensures that there is enough growth to sustain both people and their animals. This reflects the biblical principle of stewardship, where humans are called to care for all of God's creation, including the animals that are part of their livelihood.

and the wild animals in your land
The phrase "wild animals" translates from the Hebrew "חַיָּה" (chayyah), indicating non-domesticated creatures. This inclusion highlights God's comprehensive care for all life, not just human interests. The land's rest during the Sabbatical year serves as a reminder that the earth and its fullness belong to the Lord (Psalm 24:1). It underscores the interconnectedness of all creation and God's provision for every living thing, reinforcing the idea that humans are part of a larger ecosystem that God sustains.

All its growth may serve as food
The term "growth" comes from the Hebrew "תְּבוּאָה" (tevuah), meaning produce or yield. During the Sabbatical year, the land is not to be sown or harvested in the usual manner, yet it will still produce enough to serve as food. This miraculous provision is a testament to God's sovereignty and faithfulness. It teaches reliance on God's provision rather than human effort alone. The phrase "may serve as food" indicates that the produce of the land is freely available to all, symbolizing God's generosity and the principle of sharing resources within the community. This provision is a foretaste of the ultimate rest and provision found in Christ, who is our Sabbath rest (Hebrews 4:9-10).

(7) And for thy cattle.--In accordance with the benign legislation which obtained during the second Temple, the administrators of the law inferred from this verse, and hence enacted, that the fruit of the seventh year may only be eaten by man at home, as long as the kind is found in the field. "As long as the animals eat the same kind in the field thou mayest eat what there is of it in the house, but if the animal has consumed it all in the field thou art bound to remove this kind from the house into the field." (For the enactment which enjoins the remission of debts in the sabbatical year, see Deuteronomy 15:1-3.) During the second Temple the sabbatical year began on the first day of the month of Tishri, which was the beginning of the civil year. The tillage, however, and the cultivation of certain fields and gardens, were left off in the sixth year. The cultivation of corn-fields ceased from the Feast of Passover, and orchards from Pentecost of the sixth year. The reading of portions of the Law which is enjoined in Deuteronomy 31:10-13, was assigned during the second Temple to the king. At the termination of the seventh fallow year, which coincided with the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles of the eighth year, a wooden platform was erected in the outer court of the Temple, on which the king was seated. The chief of the synagogue took the Book of the Law, and gave it to the head of the synagogue, who gave it to the head of the priests. He gave it to the high priest, and the latter handed it to the king, who stood up to receive it. He then sat down again, and read the following seven sections :--(1) Deuteronomy 1:1 to Deuteronomy 6:3; (2) Deuteronomy 6:4-8; (3) Deuteronomy 11:13-22; (4) Deuteronomy 14:22 to Deuteronomy 15:23; (5) Deuteronomy 16:12-19; (6) Deuteronomy 17:14-20; (7) Deuteronomy 27:1 to Deuteronomy 28:68. The king concluded with the same benedictions, which the high priest pronounced (see Leviticus 16:27), only that he substituted the blessing for the festival for the absolution of sins. . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
and for your livestock
וְלִ֨בְהֶמְתְּךָ֔ (wə·liḇ·hem·tə·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 929: A dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal

and the wild animals
וְלַֽחַיָּ֖ה (wə·la·ḥay·yāh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

in your land.
בְּאַרְצֶ֑ךָ (bə·’ar·ṣe·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

All
כָל־ (ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

of its growth
תְּבוּאָתָ֖הּ (tə·ḇū·’ā·ṯāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 8393: Product, revenue

may serve
תִּהְיֶ֥ה (tih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

as food.
לֶאֱכֹֽל׃ (le·’ĕ·ḵōl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 398: To eat


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