Quotes About Provision

So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”

The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”

Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.

but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.

No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.

since what they already had was more than enough to perform all the work.

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.í”

You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,

Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,

and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.

For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.

Now you may wonder, ëWhat will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?í

But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.

While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth yearís harvest comes in.

Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.

You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.