Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 25:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
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Quick Meaning
This verse includes domestic and wild animals in eating the land's increase.
Read It With
- Leviticus 25:1-7
Read through 25:1-7 and watch how each actor, material, status, or command relates. Leviticus 25:7 includes domestic and wild animals in eating the land's increase; the whole unit establishes this: 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
Land Sabbath and Jubilee extend the book's sacred-time pattern into agriculture, property, labor, family return, and debt, without making every festival detail control the land laws. Within the whole book, this unit contributes: 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. Within that movement, this verse includes domestic and wild animals in eating the land's increase.
What Remains True
Includes domestic and wild animals in eating the land's increase. 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 25:7, 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.
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
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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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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NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 25:1-7
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