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21 The Lord will bless the land in the sixth year so that it will produce enough food for two years. 22 When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating what you harvested during the sixth year, and you will have enough to eat until the crops you plant that year are harvested.

Restoration of Property

23 Your land must not be sold on a permanent basis, because you do not own it; it belongs to God, and you are like foreigners who are allowed to make use of it.

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21 I will send you such a blessing(A) in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.(B) 22 While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.(C)

23 “‘The land(D) must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine(E) and you reside in my land as foreigners(F) and strangers.

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