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