The Sabbath Year for the Land

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ADONAI spoke to Moshe on Mount Sinai; he said,

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"Tell the people of Isra'el, 'When you enter the land I am giving you, the land itself is to observe a Shabbat rest for ADONAI.

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Six years you will sow your field; six years you will prune your grapevines and gather their produce.

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But in the seventh year is to be a Shabbat of complete rest for the land, a Shabbat for ADONAI; you will neither sow your field nor prune your grapevines.

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You are not to harvest what grows by itself from the seeds left by your previous harvest, and you are not to gather the grapes of your untended vine; it is to be a year of complete rest for the land.

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But what the land produces during the year of Shabbat will be food for all of you - you, your servant, your maid, your employee, anyone living near you,

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your livestock and the wild animals on your land; everything the land produces may be used for food.

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