11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field may eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your [a]olive grove.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:11 olive yards

34 (A)Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;

then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—

for the time it did not rest on your (B)sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

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22 (A)And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat (B)old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.

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20 ‘And if you say, (A)“What shall we eat in the seventh year, since (B)we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?”

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11 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it (A)you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. 12 For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; (B)you shall eat its produce from the field.

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“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall (A)keep a sabbath to the Lord. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit; but in the (B)seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn (C)rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. (D)What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land. And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you, for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food.

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