Leviticus 25:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land shall observe a Sabbath for the Lord.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:21

to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had made up for its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

Psalm 115:16

The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth he has given to human beings.

Exodus 23:10

“Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,

Isaiah 8:8

it will sweep on into Judah as a flood and, pouring over, will reach up to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

Jeremiah 27:5

It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the people and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever I please.

Leviticus 14:34

“When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a defiling disease in a house in the land of your possession,

Leviticus 23:32

It shall be to you a Sabbath of complete rest, and you shall humble yourselves; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening you shall keep your Sabbath.”

Leviticus 25:1

The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,

Leviticus 25:3

Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in their yield,

Deuteronomy 32:49

“Ascend this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites for a possession;

Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;

Deuteronomy 34:4

The Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.”