He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

so ¹  he thought to himself, ²  ‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ ³ 

and you may sow the eighth year and eat from that sixth year’s produce ¹  – old produce. Until you bring in the ninth year’s produce, ²  you may eat old produce.

The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw ¹  him making locusts just as the crops planted late ²  were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest. ³ )

Then the priest ¹  must remove its entrails by cutting off its tail feathers, ²  and throw them ³  to the east side of the altar into the place of fatty ashes,

Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, ¹  the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them. ² 

You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since ¹  the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left. ² 

¹ “For six years ²  you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.

Whirring locusts ¹  will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield ¹  the produce ²  for three years,

then let me sow ¹  and let another eat, and let my crops ²  be uprooted.

Where there are no oxen, the feeding trough is clean, but an abundant harvest is produced by strong oxen. ¹ 

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

He then ¹  told them a parable: ²  “The land of a certain rich man produced ³  an abundant crop,

You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled. ¹ 

If you say, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’

They invaded the land ¹  and devoured ²  its crops ³  all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, ⁴  and they took away ⁵  the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.

When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, ¹  because the Lord blessed him. ² 

I will give you your rains in their time so that ¹  the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. ²