Verse Lens · Context pointer
Leviticus 25:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
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Role in This Section
This verse makes the land's Sabbath produce available across household and labor statuses.
Read It With
- Leviticus 25:1-7
Start with 25:1-7 rather than Leviticus 25:6 alone. In that complete movement, this verse makes the land's Sabbath produce available across household and labor statuses. The unit's controlling claim is: 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 It Needs Context
Leviticus 25:1-7 must remain the teaching frame because this verse makes the land's Sabbath produce available across household and labor statuses without completing the unit's reasoning.
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 context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 25:1-7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 25:1-7
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