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A Comprehensive Command
Commentators explain that the terms 'field' and 'vineyard' are not meant to be restrictive. They represent all forms of agricultural labor, including sowing, pruning, and harvesting from all types of productive land like orchards and gardens. The command encompasses the entirety of a person's productive work.
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Leviticus
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Albert Barnes
On Leviticus 25:3
18th Century
Theologian
Vineyard - Rather, fruit-garden. The Hebrew word is a general one for a plantation of fruit-trees.
Charles Ellicott
On Leviticus 25:3
19th Century
Bishop
Six years thou shalt sow. —See Exodus 23:10.
The fruit thereof. —That is, of the land whi…
Charles Spurgeon
On Leviticus 25:3–4
19th Century
Preacher
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; but in the seventh year shall…
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John Gill
On Leviticus 25:3
17th Century
Pastor
Six years you shall sow your field
Under which is comprehended everything relating to agriculture, both before and a…
Matthew Henry
On Leviticus 25:1–7
17th Century
Minister
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…