Leviticus 25:1-7
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25Yahweh then spoke to Moses 1at Mount Sinai, saying, 2“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I am giving to you, then the land shall have a sabbath to Yahweh. 3‘aSix years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce, 4but during athe seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to Yahweh; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard. 5‘1What grows of its own accord from your harvest you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year. 6‘aAnd the sabbath produce of the land shall be for food; for you and your male and female slaves and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who sojourn with you. 7‘Even your cattle and the beasts that are in your land shall have all its produce to eat.