² “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into ^(A)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 for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, ⁴ but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. ^5 (B)You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. ⁶ The Sabbath of the land^[a] shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves^[b] and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you, ⁷ and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: ^(C)all its yield shall be for food.

^18 (A)“Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then ^(B)you will dwell in the land securely. ^19 (C)The land will yield its fruit, and ^(D)you will eat your fill ^(E)and dwell in it securely. ²⁰ And if you say, ^(F)‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if ^(G)we may not sow or gather in our crop?’ ²¹ I will ^(H)command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. ^22 (I)When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of ^(J)the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.