Neville Goddard on Leviticus 25:2-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Leviticus 25 in context

Scripture Focus

2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.

3Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

4But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

5That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

6And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,

7And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

Leviticus 25:2-7

Biblical Context

Leviticus 25:2-7 commands that after six years of work the land shall rest for a seventh year. During this sabbath, sowing and pruning stop, and the harvest that grows of its own accord feeds people and animals alike.

Neville's Inner Vision

Wise reader, hear the inner echo: the land's sabbath is not a decree about soil alone but a pattern of consciousness. Six years of labor represent the busy thoughts that seek to shape and control; the seventh year invites you to pause, to withdraw the urge to harvest by will alone, and to align with the I AM that sustains all life. When you hear that the soil rests unto the LORD, hear it as your own mind resting in God, trusting that all increase comes from the Source rather than from struggle. The rest is not inactivity but a recalibration, a moment when you stop reaping what you have not yet sown in faith and allow what grows to appear by grace. In that stillness, everyone sharing your life -- servants, strangers, cattle -- benefits from the harmony of supply, not from scarcity. The law's cadence -- work, then rest -- becomes a daily rhythm of your inner state: activity balanced with surrender, effort held softly in the I AM. When you practice this imagined seventh year in consciousness, you will find the apparent world following the same law: abundance flows as you rest in awareness.