Bible Verses About Sabbatic Year: Called Year of Release

Guard yourself against allowing your heart to entertain the mean-spirited thought that because the seventh year, the year of sh'mittah is at hand, you would be stingy toward your needy brother and not give him anything; for then he may cry out to ADONAI against you, and it will be your sin.

Moshe gave them these orders: "At the end of every seven years, during the festival of Sukkot in the year of sh'mittah,