Parallel Verses

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:

World English Bible

If you said, "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 and the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill and dwell therein in safety. 20 But if you say, “What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?” 21 then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.



Cross References

Leviticus 25:4

but the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath unto the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard.

Luke 12:29

And seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, neither be ye high minded.

Numbers 11:4

And the vulgar who were mixed in among them returned to their lust; and even the sons of Israel wept and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Numbers 11:13

Where should I find flesh to give unto all these people? For they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat.

2 Kings 6:15-17

And when the servant of the man of God was risen early to go forth, behold, a host compassed the city both with horsemen and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! What shall we do?

2 Kings 7:2

Then a captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat of it.

2 Chronicles 25:9

Then 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? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.

Psalm 78:19-20

And they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Isaiah 1:2

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD speaks, I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.

Matthew 6:25-34

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

Matthew 8:26

And he said unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then, awake, he rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

Philippians 4:6

Be anxious for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.

Hebrews 13:5-6

Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as ye have; for he has said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

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