Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 25:22
And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat [yet] of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old [store].
Of old fruit; of the sixth year principally, if not solely.
Until her fruits, i.e. the fruits of the eighth year.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And ye shall sow the eighth year,…. Sow the land in the eighth year, and likewise dress their vines, olives, c.
and eat [yet] of the old fruit even in the eighth year, of the old fruit of the sixth year, as the Targum of Jonathan adds:
until the ninth year; that is, as Jarchi explains it, until the feast of tabernacles of the ninth, which was the time that the increase of the eighth came into the house; for all summer it was in the field, and in Tisri or September was the time of gathering it into the house; and sometimes it was necessary to provide for four years on the sixth, which was before the sabbatical year, the seventh, for they ceased from tilling the ground two years running, the seventh and the jubilee year; but this Scripture is said concerning all the rest of the sabbatical years: these encouraging promises, one would have thought, would have been placed more naturally after the account of the sabbatical year that followed, Le 25:7; but the reason of their being inserted here seems to be, because in the year of jubilee they were neither to sow nor reap, nor gather in the grapes of the undressed vine, as in the sabbatical year, Le 25:11; wherefore those things are said for encouragement at the one time as at the other; since it might easily be concluded, that he that could provide for them every sixth year for three years to come, could once in fifty years provide for four:
until her fruits come in, ye shall eat [of] the old [store]; some of which came in in March, as barley, others in May, as the wheat, and others in August and September, as the grapes, olives, &c. which was the time of ingathering several fruits of the earth, and of finishing the whole.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(22) And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit.Better, And when ye shall sow in the eighth year, ye shall yet eat of the old produce, that is, when at the termination of the sabbatical year the Israelites resume the cultivation of the soil in the eighth year, the abundant crop of the sixth yearthe year preceding the sabbatical yearwill not only suffice for this year, but will reach till that part of the ninth year when the crops sown in the eighth are ripe and gathered in. Accordingly, the sixth years harvest will suffice till the Feast of Tabernacles, or till Tishri 1 of the ninth year.
Until her fruits come in.Better, until its produce come in, that is, the produce of the eighth year which was gathered in the ninth. Lev. 25:20, therefore, which states the anticipated question, and Lev. 25:21-22, which contain the reply, ought properly to follow immediately after Lev. 25:7, since they meet the difficulty arising from the rest of the land during the sabbatical year. The redactor of Leviticus may, however, have inserted Lev. 25:20-22 here because the difficulty raised in them, and the reply given to the anticipated question, apply equally to the jubile year. The special Divine interposition which is here promised to meet the requirements of one years cessation from cultivating the land will, as a matter of course, be all the more readily vouchsafed when the Israelites will have to exercise greater obedience and faith in the jubile, and abstain two successive years from tilling the ground.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
“And you shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.”
Thus in the seventh and the eighth years they would eat ‘the old store’, that which had been laid up in the sixth year.
Others see ‘the seventh year’ in Lev 25:20 as referring to the forty ninth year. But it should be noted that the ‘fiftieth year’, the year of Yubile, does not begin at the beginning of the year, the first day of the first month (Abib), but begins on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement, and thus half way through the year, presumably of the forty ninth year commencing on the first of Abib. It is thus only loosely called the ‘fiftieth year’, for it is a year beginning at a different date.
This is quite in accord with usage in those times when calendars were not strictly worked out. But to speak then of an eighth and ninth year in terms of it would be confusing to say the least. The first year of the new Yubile period probably began in the fiftieth year as well, so that the ‘fiftieth year’ spanned the last part of the forty ninth year and the first part of the following first year which began the new forty nine year period. This would mean that sabbatical years, as we would expect by comparison with the Sabbath, would continue to be on the seventh year as numbered from the previous seventh year without the arrival of the ‘fiftieth year’ changing the sequence. The ‘fiftieth year’ was thus not an agricultural year, in accord with the other years, but a year of accounting on a different basis, in which grand release took place.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Lev 25:22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat [yet] of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old [store].
Ver. 22. Ye shall eat of the old store. ] Leave that care to me, who will cause you to have “all sufficiency in all things, that ye may abound to every good work.” 2Co 9:8 ; 2Co 9:10
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
eighth: 2Ki 19:29, Isa 37:30
old fruit: Jos 5:11, Jos 5:12
Reciprocal: Exo 16:5 – prepare Exo 16:22 – General Exo 23:11 – the seventh Lev 26:10 – General