KJV King James Version
And 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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Leviticus 25:6
And 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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
WEB World English Bible
The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
ASV American Standard Version
And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger, who sojourn with thee.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘And the sabbath of the land hath been to you for food, to thee, and to thy man-servant, and to thy handmaid, and to thy hireling, and to thy settler, who are sojourning with thee;
Surrounding context — Leviticus 25
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 That 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.
6 And 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,
7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that [are] in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְ֠הָיְתָהH1961 · ha.yahto beשַׁבַּ֨תH7676 · shab.batSabbathהָאָ֤רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetלָכֶם֙H9036 · khemyouלְאָכְלָ֔הH402 · okh.lahfoodלְךָ֖H9031 · kayouוּלְעַבְדְּךָ֣H5650 · e.vedservant/slaveוְלַאֲמָתֶ֑ךָH519 · a.mahmaidservantוְלִשְׂכִֽירְךָ֙H7916 · sa.khirhiredוּלְתוֹשָׁ֣בְךָ֔H8453 · to.shavsojournerהַגָּרִ֖יםH1481 · gurto sojournעִמָּֽךְ׃H5973 · imwith
Cross-references
Acts 2:44And all that believed were together, and had all things common;Exodus 23:11But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.Acts 4:32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any [of them] that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.Acts 4:34-35Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,Leviticus 25:20And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
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