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“Speak to the Israelites,[a] and say to them, ‘When you[b] come into the land that I am about to give to you,[c] then[d] the land shall observe a Sabbath for Yahweh. Six years you[e] shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and you shall gather its yield. But[f] in the seventh year it shall be a Sabbath of complete rest[g] for the land—a Sabbath for Yahweh; you[h] must not sow your field, and you must not prune your vineyard.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Leviticus 25:2 Plural
  3. Leviticus 25:2 Plural
  4. Leviticus 25:2 Or “and”
  5. Leviticus 25:3 Singular throughout this verse
  6. Leviticus 25:4 Or “And”
  7. Leviticus 25:4 Literally “a Sabbath of ‘Sabbathation.’” “Sabbathation” is not a real word, but it is devised as an attempt to convey the sounds of the related nouns in the Hebrew phrase
  8. Leviticus 25:4 Singular throughout this verse