²¹Then I will ^scommand my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. ²²^tAnd ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of ^uold fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

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Footnotes

sSo Ex. 16:29.
tSo 2 Kin. 19:29.
uSo Josh. 5:11, 12. Compare ch. 26:10.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. 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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I will appoint my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.

NLTNew Living Translation

Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years. When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

then I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will make the yield for three years. And you will sow in the eighth year, and you shall eat from the old yield; until the ninth year, until the coming of its yield, you shall eat the old yield.