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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

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the Lord. For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.(A) But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest,(B) a sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.(C)

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