“And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:”
You may ask, what will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops? The anticipated objection to the sabbatical year: what will we eat? The community's practical anxiety about the sabbatical year's agricultural rest is anticipated and addressed. The covenant God who commands the rest also provides the means for surviving it. The anxiety is understandable; the answer is the provision of the sixth year's abundance.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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