Instructions for Sabbaths and Sabbatical Years

¹⁰ “You are to sow your land and gather its crops for six years, ¹¹ but you are to let it rest the seventh year, leaving it unplanted. The poor of your people may eat from it,^[a] and the wild animals may eat what they leave. You are to do the same with your vineyards and olive groves. ¹² You are to do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you are to refrain from work so that your ox and donkey^[b] may rest, and so the son of your maidservant and the alien may be refreshed.

¹³ “Be careful about everything I’ve told you, and don’t mention the name of other gods. Don’t let them be heard in your mouth!”