Parallel Verses
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?
New American Standard Bible
But if you say, “
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!
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?
Themes
Feast of sabbatical year » Surplus of sixth year to provide for
Seed » Mosaic laws respecting » Not to be sown during the sabbatical year
Topics
Interlinear
Shaneh (in pl. only),
Zara`
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 25:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Release Of Landed Property
19 And the land shall give her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill and dwell therein in safety. 20 "'If ye shall say: What shall we eat the seventh year inasmuch as we shall not sow nor gather in our increase? 21 I will send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years:
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 25:4
But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land. The LORD's Sabbath it shall be, and thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor cut thy vines.
Luke 12:29
And ask not what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither climb ye up on high:
Numbers 11:4
And the rascal people that was among them fell a lusting. And the children of Israel also went to, and wept, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Numbers 11:13
Where should I have flesh to give unto all this 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 men of God rose up early, and was gone out: Behold, there was an Host round about the town with horses and chariots. Then said his lad to him, "Alas master, what shall we do?"
2 Kings 7:2
Then a great lord on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God and said, "Though the LORD would make windows in heaven, yet would not this be." And he said again, "Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes and shalt not eat thereof."
2 Chronicles 25:9
And Amaziah said again to the man of God, "What shall we do then, for the hundred talents which I have given unto the host of Israel?" And the man of God said, "The LORD is able to give thee much more than that."
Psalm 78:19-20
For they spake against God, and said, "Yea yea, God shall prepare a table in the wilderness, shall he?
Isaiah 1:2
Hear O heaven, and hearken O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they are fallen away from me.
Matthew 6:25-34
Therefore I say unto you, be not careful for your life what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what raiment ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth than meat? and the body more of value than raiment?
Matthew 8:26
And he said unto them, "Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?" Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there followed a great calm.
Philippians 4:6
Be not careful: but in all things show your petition unto God in prayer and supplication with giving of thanks.
Hebrews 13:5-6
Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with that ye have already. For he verily said, "I will not fail thee, neither forsake thee."