Leviticus 25:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The sabbath of the land That is, the accidental crop that grew in the sabbatical year. Shall be meat for you For all promiscuously, to take food from thence as you need. It is true the land would produce little corn without being tilled and sown, but the vines and other fruit-trees which abounded in the country, even without pruning, would yield a considerable increase, so that the poorer sort might thus enjoy many comforts, together with rest, of which they were destitute on other years.

Leviticus 25:6

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,