Exodus 23:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

Exodus 23:10 —

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Leviticus 25:3-4
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-19)

Here is, I. The institution of the sabbatical year, Exod. 23:10, 11. Every seventh year the land was to rest; they must not plough nor sow it at the beginning of the year, and then they could not expect any great harvest at the end of the year: but what the earth did produce of itself should be eaten from hand to mouth, and not laid up. Now this was designed, 1. To show what a plentiful land that…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. six years thou shalt sow thy land--intermitting the cultivation of the land every seventh year. But it appears that even then there was a spontaneous produce which the poor were permitted freely to gather for their use, and the beasts driven out fed on the remainder, the owners of fields not being allowed to reap or collect the fruits of the vineyard or oliveyard during the course of this sabb…