Leviticus 25:1-9 ▼

1 The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai:

2 “ Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you, the land will observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

3 You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.

4 But there will be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land in the seventh year, a Sabbath to the LORD : you are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

5 You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It must be a year of complete rest for the land.

6 Whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year can be food for you  — for yourself, your male or female slave , and the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you.

7 All of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land.

8 “ You are to count seven sabbatical years, seven times seven years, so that the time period of the seven sabbatical years amounts to 49 .

9 Then you are to sound a trumpet loudly in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month; you will sound it throughout your land on the Day of Atonement.