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You may have the Sabbath produce[a] of the land to eat—you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:6 tn The word “produce” is not in the Hebrew text but is implied; cf. NASB “the sabbath products.”
  2. Leviticus 25:6 tn A “resident who stays” would be a foreign person who was probably residing as another kind of laborer in the household of a landowner (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 170-71). See v. 35 below.

Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year(A) will be food for you—for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you,

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