Leviticus 25:21
Good News Translation
The LORD will bless the land in the sixth year so that it will produce enough food for two years.

New Revised Standard Version
I will order my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will yield a crop for three years.

Contemporary English Version
I will see to it that you harvest enough in the sixth year to last for three years.

New American Bible
I will command such a blessing for you in the sixth year that there will be crop enough for three years,

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will give you my blessing the sixth year: and it shall yield the fruits of three years.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will give you my blessing the sixth year: and it shall yield the fruits of three years.

Genesis 26:12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

Genesis 41:47 And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corn being bound up into sheaves, was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.

Exodus 16:29 See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man stay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.

Deuteronomy 28:3,8 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field. . . .

Psalm 133:3 As the dew of Hermon, which descendeth upon mount Sion. For there the Lord hath commanded blessing, and life for evermore.

Proverbs 10:22 A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.

2 Corinthians 9:10 And he that ministereth seed to the sower will both give you bread to eat and will multiply your seed and increase the growth of the fruits of your justice:

three years

Leviticus 25:4,8-11 But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of the resting of the Lord. Thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. . . .

Context
The Blessing of Obedience
20But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits? 21I will give you my blessing the sixth year: and it shall yield the fruits of three years.22And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old store.…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:6
But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy manservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn with thee.

Deuteronomy 28:8
The Lord will send forth a blessing upon thy storehouses, and upon all the works of thy hands: and will bless thee in the land that thou shalt receive.

Psalm 133:3
As the dew of Hermon, which descendeth upon mount Sion. For there the Lord hath commanded blessing, and life for evermore.

Ezekiel 34:26
And I will make them a blessing round about my hill: and I will send down the rain in its season, there shall be showers of blessing.

Leviticus 25:20
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