Leviticus 25:1-4 ▼

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, in Mount Sinai, saying,

2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When you come into the land which I am giving to you, then the land has kept a Sabbath to YHWH.

3 [For] six years you sow your field, and [for] six years you prune your vineyard, and have gathered its increase,

4 and in the seventh year is a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to YHWH; you do not sow your field, and you do not prune your vineyard;