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“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
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During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
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Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
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Sabbath Laws
“For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops,
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“Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
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“Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
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“Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
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“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
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But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will be increased. I am the Lord your God.
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“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.
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“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the Lord your God.’”
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Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.
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The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.
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You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops.
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You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?”
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While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.
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Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.
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You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.
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“I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain they give the Lord as the firstfruits of their harvest.
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For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.
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When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
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When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.
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You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.
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For a fire will be kindled by my wrath, one that burns down to the realm of the dead below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
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Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,
