Leviticus 25:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

It shall be holy So it was, because it was sequestered, in great part, from worldly employments, and dedicated to God, and to the exercise of holy joy and thankfulness; and because it was a type of that holy and happy jubilee which they were to expect and enjoy under the Messiah. The increase thereof Such things as it produced of itself. Out of the field Whence they, in common with others, might take it as they needed it; but must not put it into barns. See Leviticus 25:5, and Exodus 23:11.

Leviticus 25:12

12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.