Leviticus 25:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

It shall be holy unto you: 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 by and under the Messias. The increase thereof; such things as it produced of itself; for the year before nothing was sowed. 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 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.