Leviticus 25:1-7

Modern English Version

The Sabbath Year

25 Then the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying: ² Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord. ³ For six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruit, ⁴ but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of complete rest for the land, a sabbath for the Lord. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. ⁵ That which grows by itself from your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vines, for it is a year of complete rest for the land. ⁶ The sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, and for your male and female servants, and for your hired servant, and for your stranger who sojourns with you, ⁷ and for your livestock, and for the wild animals in your land, shall all its increase be food.