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The sabbath of the land shall be meat for you — That is, the produce of the untilled land (its “increase,”Leviticus 25:7) shal…

And the sabbath of the land. That is, the growth or produce during this sabbath of the land. For the figure of speech, see Leviticus 18:38…

There was to be no private property in the spontaneous produce of that year. It was free to everybody; free even to the cattle, which might go and …

And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you
, That is, that which grew up of itself but of the land, or on trees, vines,…

All labor was to cease in the seventh year, just as daily labor on the seventh day. These statutes tell us to beware of covetousness, for a man…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes