Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, New Living Translation “Plant and harvest your crops for six years, English Standard Version “For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, Berean Standard Bible For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce, King James Bible And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: New King James Version “Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce, New American Standard Bible “Now you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield, NASB 1995 “You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield, NASB 1977 “And you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield, Legacy Standard Bible “Now you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its produce, Amplified Bible “You shall sow your land six years and harvest its yield, Christian Standard Bible “Sow your land for six years and gather its produce. Holman Christian Standard Bible Sow your land for six years and gather its produce. American Standard Version And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof: Contemporary English Version Plant and harvest your crops for six years, English Revised Version And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof: GOD'S WORD® Translation "For six years you may plant crops in your fields and harvest them, Good News Translation "For six years plant your land and gather in what it produces. International Standard Version "You are to sow your land and gather its crops for six years, Majority Standard Bible For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce, NET Bible "For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce. New Heart English Bible "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, Webster's Bible Translation And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: World English Bible “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd [for] six years you sow your land and have gathered its increase; Young's Literal Translation 'And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase; Smith's Literal Translation Six years shalt thou sow thy land, and gather its produce: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleSix years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof. Catholic Public Domain Version For six years, you shall sow your land and gather its produce. New American Bible For six years you may sow your land and gather in its produce. New Revised Standard Version For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor six years you shall sow your land and shall gather in the crops thereof: Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Six years you shall sow your land and you shall gather in its harvests: OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the increase thereof; Brenton Septuagint Translation Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the fruits of it. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Sabbath Laws10For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce, 11but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.… Cross References Leviticus 25:3-4 For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops. / But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard. Deuteronomy 15:1-2 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. / This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed. Leviticus 26:34-35 Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. / As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it. 2 Chronicles 36:21 So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah. Nehemiah 10:31 When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow and will cancel every debt. Isaiah 37:30 And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. Jeremiah 34:14 Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear. Leviticus 25:20-22 Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’ / But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years. / While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in. Deuteronomy 31:10-11 Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles, / when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel. Genesis 2:2-3 And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. / Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished. Hebrews 4:4-10 For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.” / And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.” / Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience, ... Luke 4:18-19 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, / to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Matthew 11:28-30 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. / Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. / For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Romans 8:21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery. Treasury of Scripture And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the fruits thereof: no reference Jump to Previous Crops Fields Fruits Gather Gathered Harvest Increase Produce Seed Six Sow Thereof YieldJump to Next Crops Fields Fruits Gather Gathered Harvest Increase Produce Seed Six Sow Thereof YieldExodus 23 1. Of slander, false witness, and partiality4. Of charitableness 6. Of justice in judgment 8. Of taking bribes 9. Of oppressing a stranger 10. Of the year of rest 12. Of the Sabbath 13. Of idolatry 14. Of the three feasts 18. Of the blood and the fat of the sacrifice 20. An angel is promised, with a blessing, if they obey him For six years This phrase introduces a cycle of labor and rest that is deeply rooted in the agricultural practices of ancient Israel. The number six is significant in biblical numerology, often representing human effort and labor. In the context of creation, God worked for six days and rested on the seventh, establishing a divine pattern for humanity. The six-year period of sowing and harvesting reflects a time of diligent work and stewardship over the land, emphasizing the importance of human responsibility in God's creation. you are to sow your land and gather its produce (10, 11) Six years . . . the seventh year.--The Sabbatical year which is here commanded was an institution wholly unknown to any nation but the Hebrews. It is most extraordinary that any legislator should have been able to induce a people to accept such a law. Prima facie, it seemed, by forbidding productive industry during one year in seven, to diminish the wealth of the nation by one-seventh. But it is questionable whether, under a primitive agricultural system, when rotation of crops was unknown, the lying of the land fallow during one year in seven would not have been an economical benefit. There was no prohibition on labour other than in cultivation. The clearing away of weeds and thorns and stones was allowed, and may have been practised. After an early harvest of the self-sown crop, the greater part of the year may have been spent in this kind of industry. Still the enactment was no doubt unpopular: it checked the regular course of agriculture, and seemed to rob landowners of one-seventh of their natural gains. Accordingly, we find that it was very irregularly observed. Between the Exodus and the Captivity it had apparently been neglected seventy times (2Chronicles 36:21), or more often than it had been kept. After the Captivity, however, the observance became regular, and classical writers notice the custom as one existing in their day (Tacit. Hist. v. 4). Julius Caesar permitted it, and excused the Jews from paying tribute in the seventh year on its account (Joseph., Ant Jud. xiv. 10, ? 6). The object of the law was threefold--(1) to test obedience; (2) to give an advantage to the poor and needy, to whom the crop of the seventh year belonged (Exodus 23:11); and (3) to allow an opportunity, once in seven years, for prolonged communion with God and increased religious observances. (See Deuteronomy 31:10-13.) Verses 10, 11. - Law of the Sabbatical year. Days of rest, at regular or irregular intervals, were well known to the ancients and some regulations of the kind existed in most countries But entire years of rest were wholly unknown to any nation except the Israelites. and exposed them to the reproach of idleness. (See Tacit. Hist. 5:4: - "Septimo die otium placuisse ferunt, quia is finem laborum dedit; dein, blandiente inertia, septimum quoque annum ignaviae datum"). In a primitive condition of agriculture, when rotation of crops was unknown, artificial manure unemployed, and the need of letting even the best land sometimes lie fallow unrecognised, it may not have been an uneconomical arrangement to require an entire suspension of cultivation once in seven years. But great difficulty was probably experienced in enforcing the law. Just as there were persons who wished to gather manna on the seventh day (Exodus 16:27), so there would be many anxious to obtain in the seventh year something more from their fields than Nature would give them if left to herself. If the "seventy years" of the captivity were intended exactly to make up for omissions of the due observance of the sabbatical year, we must suppose that between the time of the exodus and the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, the ordinance had been as often neglected as observed. (See 2 Chronicles 36:21.) The primary object of the requirement was, as stated in ver. 11, that the poor of thy people may eat, what the land brought forth of its own accord in the Sabbatical year being shared by them (Leviticus 25:6.). But no doubt it was also intended that the Sabbatical year should be one of increased religious observance, whereof the solemn reading of the law in the ears of the people at the Feast of Tabernacles "in the year of release" (Deuteronomy 31:10) was an indication and a part. That reading was properly preceded by a time of religious preparation (Nehemiah 8:1-15), and would naturally lead on to further acts of a religious character, which might occupy a considerable period (ibid. chs. 9. and 10.). Altogether, the year was a most solemn period, calling men to religious self-examination, to repentance, to the formation of holy habits, and tending to a general elevation among the people of the standard of holiness. What they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. There was to be no regular ingathering. The proprietor, his servants, the poor, and the stranger were to take what they needed; and the residue was to be for the cattle and for the beasts that were in the land (Deuteronomy 25:6, 7). Thy vineyard - thy oliveyard. Corn, wine, and oil were the only important products of Palestine; and this mention of the vineyard and the oliveyard shows that one and the same law was to hold good of all the lands in the country, however they might be cultivated. The whole land was to rest.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew For sixוְשֵׁ֥שׁ (wə·šêš) Conjunctive waw | Number - feminine singular Strong's 8337: Six (a cardinal number) years שָׁנִ֖ים (šā·nîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 8141: A year you are to sow תִּזְרַ֣ע (tiz·ra‘) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify your land אַרְצֶ֑ךָ (’ar·ṣe·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land and gather וְאָסַפְתָּ֖ (wə·’ā·sap̄·tā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 622: To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove its produce, תְּבוּאָתָֽהּ׃ (tə·ḇū·’ā·ṯāh) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 8393: Product, revenue Links Exodus 23:10 NIVExodus 23:10 NLT Exodus 23:10 ESV Exodus 23:10 NASB Exodus 23:10 KJV Exodus 23:10 BibleApps.com Exodus 23:10 Biblia Paralela Exodus 23:10 Chinese Bible Exodus 23:10 French Bible Exodus 23:10 Catholic Bible OT Law: Exodus 23:10 For six years you shall sow your (Exo. 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