“Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.”
I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. The divine provision for the sabbatical year's rest: a triple harvest in the sixth year. The miraculous provision that God promises for the sabbatical year is the agricultural equivalent of the manna's double portion on the sixth day before the Sabbath: God provides for the rest He commands. Obedience to the rest is not economically destructive but covenant-enabled: the God who commands the rest provides the abundance that makes the rest sustainable.
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