Leviticus - 25:7



7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 25:7.

Differing Translations

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All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.
and for the beasts that are in thy land: all the produce thereof shall be for food.
And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.
Jumentis quoque tuis et pecoribus terrae tuae erit cunctis ejus proventus in cibum.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land,.... The former signifies tame cattle, such as were kept at home, or in fields, or were used in service, and the latter the wild beasts of the field:
shall all the increase thereof be meat; for the one, and for the other; Jarchi remarks, that all the time a wild beast eats of the increase of the field, the cattle may be fed at home; but when it ceaseth to the wild beast of the field, then it ceaseth to the cattle at home; nay, the Jews are so strict in this matter, that they say that when there is no food for the beasts in the field, men are obliged to bring out what they have in their houses (r), see Isaiah 11:6.
(r) Maimon. Hilchot Shemitah Vejobel, c. 7. sect. 1.

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