Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

New American Standard Bible

But if you say, “What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?”

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

If you wonder: ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce?’

International Standard Version

"Now if you ask, "What will we eat during the seventh year? After all, we may not plant or even gather our produce!'

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

And if you say, “What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we do not sow [seed] or gather in our crops?”

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And when ye shall say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow and we shall not gather our produce.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

And if you should say, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, {if} we do not sow and we do not gather its yield?"

Modern King James verseion

And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow nor gather in our increase!

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"'If ye shall say: What shall we eat the seventh year inasmuch as we shall not sow nor gather in our increase?

NET Bible

If you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?'

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

And since ye may say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? Lo! we are not to sow, neither are we to gather our increase!

Webster

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

Youngs Literal Translation

'And when ye say, What do we eat in the seventh year, lo, we do not sow, nor gather our increase?

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And if ye shall say

Usage: 0

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

the seventh
שׁבעי שׁביעי 
Sh@biy`iy 
Usage: 98

שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

behold, we shall not sow
זרע 
Zara` 
Usage: 56

אסף 
'acaph 
Usage: 199

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Release Of Landed Property

19 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20 If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;" 21 then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.



Cross References

Leviticus 25:4

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

Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

Numbers 11:4

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?

Numbers 11:13

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 Kings 6:15-17

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?"

2 Kings 7:2

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 Chronicles 25:9

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."

Psalm 78:19-20

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Isaiah 1:2

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Matthew 6:25-34

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?

Matthew 8:26

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.

Philippians 4:6

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Hebrews 13:5-6

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."

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