Leviticus25:18–22

Safety and satisfaction: the covenant blessing of Leviticus 26 structural / thematic — confirmed

Barnes glosses "safety" in this unit as "secure from famine" and sends the reader straight to Leviticus 26:5, the formal blessing-for-obedience. The Verifier confirms a real verbal tie: both passages share beṭach ("security," rare-ish, 41 vv) and the satisfaction-and-dwelling vocabulary. The sabbatical insert is a foretaste of the chapter-26 covenant sanctions, where eating to the full and dwelling securely are the named reward of keeping the statutes.

Leviticus 26:5

basis: shared lexemes H983 beṭach (in 41 vv) and the dwell-securely / eat-to-satisfaction motif; Verifier also returns H7648 sôbaʻ (in 8 vv) on the wider pair — a shared pattern, not a quotation

The parallel sabbatical-year law (Exodus 23:10–11; Leviticus 25:3) verbal / quotation — confirmed

Leviticus 25:20's "sow … gather our produce" reuses the statutory vocabulary of the older sabbatical-year law in Exodus 23:10 — and of the same chapter's own opening statute in Leviticus 25:3. The Verifier returns a dense cluster of shared lexemes — tᵉbûwʼâh (produce, 40 vv), zâraʻ (sow, 54 vv), ʼâçaph (gather, 187 vv), shâneh (year, 646 vv). The verbal tier here is earned not by a single rare word (the rarest, tᵉbûwʼâh at 40 vv, is only moderately scarce) but by the density of the cluster combined with the plain fact that these are the same law in two codes — restatement, not allusion. We tier it verbal on those grounds and say so frankly: this is one sabbatical statute speaking with one vocabulary, not Leviticus quoting an external source.

Exodus 23:10 · Leviticus 25:3

basis: dense shared cluster H8393 tᵉbûwʼâh (in 40 vv, moderate), H2232 zâraʻ (in 54 vv), H622 ʼâçaph (in 187 vv), H8141 shâneh (in 646 vv) — verbal on the strength of cluster density + statute-identity (same sabbatical law restated), not a single rare lexeme; not an external quotation

Eating to satisfaction: the rare sôbaʻ link (Proverbs 13:25; Psalm 16:11) verbal / quotation — confirmed

Leviticus 25:19's promise to "eat to satisfaction" (lā·śōḇaʻ) turns on a genuinely rare noun — sôbaʻ, only 8 occurrences in the whole Hebrew Bible — and that scarce word reaches in two directions. Proverbs 13:25, "The righteous eats to the satisfying (śōḇaʻ) of his soul," makes the covenant land-fullness of the obedient the same gift as the wisdom-portion of the righteous. Psalm 16:11 lifts the word higher still: "in Your presence is fullness (śōḇaʻ) of joy" — the lexicon's own gloss for sôbaʻ is "satisfaction (of food or, figuratively, joy)," and David takes it all the way to its figurative summit. Fed land, fed soul, fed by God's face: one rare word for a satisfaction that is more than a full stomach. The verbal tie rests on the low frequency of the lexeme, not on either verse citing the other.

Proverbs 13:25 · Psalm 16:11

basis: shared RARE lexeme H7648 sôbaʻ (in only 8 vv) plus H398 ʼâkal — low frequency makes the verbal link to Prov 13:25 and Ps 16:11, though neither verse cites the other

The sixth-portion blessing: manna before the sabbath (Exodus 16) structural / thematic — confirmed

Ellicott and Gill both read the sixth-year triple crop against the sixth-day double manna: "as he had blessed the sixth day with a double portion of manna, for the supply of the seventh" (Gill). The Verifier supplies a verbal hook — Leviticus 25:21's haš·šiš·šîṯ ("the sixth") shares the ordinal shishshîy (26 vv) with Exodus 16:22, where on the sixth day a double portion fell. The motif runs deeper than the ordinal: the manna narrative itself reaches for the same rare satisfaction-word as Leviticus 25:19. Exodus 16:3 has Israel longing to "eat bread to the full" (lā·śōḇaʻ), and Psalm 78:25 sings that in the wilderness God "sent them food to the full" (śōḇaʻ again) — so the sôbaʻ promised to the obedient farmer and the sôbaʻ God gave the murmuring camp are one scarce word. The typology is ancient and patterned: God pre-loads provision before commanding rest, and feeds His people to satisfaction in the very seasons they cannot feed themselves.

Exodus 16:22 · Exodus 16:3 · Psalm 78:25

basis: shared ordinal H8345 shishshîy (in 26 vv) for the sixth-day/sixth-year pattern (Ellicott, Gill); reinforced by the RARE shared lexeme H7648 sôbaʻ (in only 8 vv) linking Lev 25:19's satisfaction to the manna texts Exodus 16:3 and Psalm 78:25 — a motif braided from one rare word, not a quotation

Eating the old store in the chapter of blessing (Leviticus 26:10) verbal / quotation — confirmed

Verse 22's inclusio on yā·šān ("old") is not a stray word: it recurs, with deliberate intent, only a few verses later in the formal blessing-for-obedience of chapter 26. There God promises, "You will still be eating the old supply (yā·šān) when you must clear out the old (yā·šān) to make room for the new" (Leviticus 26:10). The Verifier confirms the genuinely rare lexeme — yâshân occurs in only 5 verses of the whole Hebrew Bible — shared with ʼâkal (eat). The same picture of stored, aged grace overflowing into the new harvest binds the sabbatical insert to the covenant blessings; what is promised here in miniature (eat the old until the new comes in) is enlarged there into a barn that cannot be emptied before the next is full.

Leviticus 26:10 · Leviticus 25:22

basis: shared RARE lexeme H3465 yâshân (in only 5 vv) plus H398 ʼâkal — the low frequency of "old" makes a real verbal echo within the same Holiness-Code blessing material; restatement/expansion, not external citation

The land collects its unkept sabbaths (2 Chronicles 36:21) flagged — verify source

Gill, following Rashi, reads this unit's threat-in-shadow: "it was for transgressing the sabbatical year that Israel was carried captive … the seventy years' captivity in Babylon were for the seventy sabbatical years that had been neglected" — citing 2 Chronicles 36:21. The Verifier finds no shared original-language lexeme between Leviticus 25:18 and 2 Chronicles 36:21 (the Chronicler alludes to the sister-text Leviticus 26:34–35, not this verse), so the connection is exegetical and traditional, not verbal — flagged accordingly.

2 Chronicles 36:21 · Leviticus 26:34

basis: no shared lexeme found by Verifier between Lev 25:18 and 2 Chron 36:21; the Chronicler's allusion is to Lev 26:34–35, and the captivity-for-sabbaths reading is a rabbinic/Rashi tradition (so Gill) — argued, not asserted from this verse

Provision before obedience: the gospel pattern of grace novel

The deepest figural reading lies in the sequence: God commands the blessing in the sixth year (wə·ṣiw·wî·ṯî), so that the people eat from grace already given before they have rendered the obedience He asks. As a cross-Testament link this cannot rest on shared Hebrew lexemes; it is structural — the same shape Paul names when he says God "demonstrates His own love … while we were still sinners" (Rom 5:8), and that Henry already saw here in "there is nothing lost by faith and self-denial in obedience." Provision precedes performance; the larder is stocked before the test.

Romans 5:8 · Philippians 4:19

The Jubilee proclaimed: liberty fulfilled in Christ widely-held

Matthew Henry reads the whole Jubilee section (25:8–22), into which this insert is set, as "typical of redemption by Christ from the slavery of sin and Satan, and of being brought again to the liberty of the children of God" — the trumpet of release sounding "on the evening of the great day of atonement," so that "the proclamation of gospel liberty and salvation results from the sacrifice of the Redeemer." This is the widely-held reading anchored in Christ's own announcement of "the acceptable year of the Lord" (Luke 4:19, citing Isa 61). The cross-Testament tie is thematic/typological, not verbal — Greek and Hebrew cannot share a Strong's number — but it is ancient and broadly attested in the church.

Luke 4:18 · Isaiah 61:1