Leviticus 25:4
Good News Translation
But the seventh year is to be a year of complete rest for the land, a year dedicated to the LORD. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards.

New Revised Standard Version
but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of complete rest for the land, a sabbath for the LORD: you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

Contemporary English Version
but the seventh year you must let your fields and vineyards rest in honor of me, your LORD.

New American Bible
But during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath of complete rest, a sabbath for the LORD, when you may neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of the resting of the Lord. Thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of the resting of the Lord. Thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

Leviticus 25:20-23 But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits? . . .

Leviticus 26:34,35,43 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation. When you shall be . . .

Exodus 23:10,11 Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:21 That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.

Context
The Sabbatical Year
3Six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof. 4But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of the resting of the Lord. Thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.5What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes or the firstfruits as a vintage. For it is a year of rest to the land.…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:5
What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes or the firstfruits as a vintage. For it is a year of rest to the land.

Leviticus 25:20
But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?

2 Chronicles 36:21
That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.

Leviticus 25:3
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