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Leviticus 25:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
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Quick Meaning
This verse forbids organized harvest of spontaneous growth during the land rest.
Read It With
- Leviticus 25:1-7
Use 25:1-7 as the reading frame for Leviticus 25:5. The verse forbids organized harvest of spontaneous growth during the land rest, while the complete unit shows that After six years of sowing, pruning, and harvest, the seventh year rests the land while spontaneous produce feeds owner, servants, hired workers, outsiders, livestock, and wildlife.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Placed here, the verse forbids organized harvest of spontaneous growth during the land rest; Leviticus 25:1-7 supplies the actors, category, and outcome needed to interpret it.
Follow the Context
- The unit opens the case or movement named “The land receives a Sabbath year.”
- After six years of sowing, pruning, and harvest, the seventh year rests the land while spontaneous produce feeds owner, servants, hired workers, outsiders, livestock, and wildlife.
- Land rest includes dependents and animals; it is not a promise that neglecting modern food planning will cause miraculous supply. That boundary keeps ritual status, moral guilt, ancient description, enduring truth, and modern application from being collapsed.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
Leviticus 25:5 does not stand apart from Leviticus 25:1-7; land rest includes dependents and animals; it is not a promise that neglecting modern food planning will cause miraculous supply.
What Remains True
Forbids organized harvest of spontaneous growth during the land rest. Within Leviticus 25:1-7, this contributes to the larger claim that after six years of sowing, pruning, and harvest, the seventh year rests the land while spontaneous produce feeds owner, servants, hired workers, outsiders, livestock, and wildlife.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 25:5, keep the verse inside Leviticus 25:1-7. Hold this boundary: Land rest includes dependents and animals; it is not a promise that neglecting modern food planning will cause miraculous supply. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain Leviticus 25:5's contribution to Leviticus 25:1-7. Name the category involved, what the surrounding verses add, any material uncertainty, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 25:1-7 — The land receives a Sabbath yearSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Interpreters disagree over Jubilee's date, relationship to sabbatical laws and ancient release decrees, historical implementation, land-sale mechanics, debt service, the scope of kinship protection, and the composition of Leviticus 25. The contrast between protected Israelite debt servants and inheritable foreign slaves remains textually explicit and ethically severe.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: Leviticus 25:1-7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
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