Exodus 23:11 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | NLT

but let the land be renewed and lie uncultivated during the seventh year. Then let the poor among you harvest whatever grows on its own. Leave the rest for wild animals to eat. The same applies to your vineyards and olive groves.

Commentaries

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century

Presbyterian

18th Century

This is the first mention of the Sabbatical year; the law for it is given at length in (Leviticus 25:2). Both the Sabbatical year and t…

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from Exodus 23:10 to th…

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

But the seventh year you shall let it rest, and lie still ,
&c.] From tillage, and make its fruits common, as the Ta…

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

Every seventh year the land was to rest. They must not plow or sow it; what the earth produced of itself was to be eaten and not stored up. This la…