What is the context?
The Lord joins secure life in the land with keeping His instructions. The text then voices the obvious concern: what will the people eat in the seventh year if they do not sow or gather their usual produce?
The answer is His promised blessing on the sixth year, enough to carry them through the period before the later harvest. Obedience is presented together with God’s provision for the need the command creates. The paragraph itself recognizes the cost and practical question.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley emphasizes the Lord’s care in making provision suitable to the people’s need. The promise belongs to this land-and-Sabbath instruction. It is not stated as a rule that any modern financial decision will yield three times as much.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
No deeper study linked yet.