The Sabbatic Year and Year of Jubilee

1 The Lord then spoke to Moses (a)at Mount Sinai, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the Lord. 3 (A)Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, 4 but during (B)the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard. 5 Your harvest’s (b)aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year. 6 (C)All of you shall have the sabbath products of the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens with you. 7 Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat.

Footnotes:

a. Leviticus 25:1: ['Or ', on]
b. Leviticus 25:5: ['Lit ', growth from spilled kernels]

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