Leviticus 25:1-9 ▼

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses on mount Sinai, saying:

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you will have entered into the land which I will give to you, rest on the Sabbath of the Lord.

3 For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall care for your vineyard, and you shall gather its fruits.

4 But in the seventh year, there shall be a Sabbath of the land, a resting of the Lord. You shall not sow your field, and you shall not care for your vineyard.

5 What the soil shall spontaneously produce, you shall not harvest. And you shall not gather the grapes of the first-fruits as a crop. For it is a year of rest for the land.

6 But these shall be yours for food, for you and for your men and women servants, and for your hired hands, and for the newcomers who sojourn with you:

7 all that grows on its own shall provide food for your beasts and cattle.

8 You shall also number for yourselves seven weeks of years, that is, seven times seven, which together makes forty-nine years.

9 And you shall sound the trumpet in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, at the time of the atonement, throughout all your land.