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11 but you are to let it rest the seventh year, leaving it unplanted. The poor of your people may eat from it,[a] and the wild animals may eat what they leave. You are to do the same with your vineyards and olive groves. 12 You are to do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you are to refrain from work so that your ox and donkey[b] may rest, and so the son of your maidservant and the alien may be refreshed.

13 “Be careful about everything I’ve told you, and don’t mention the name of other gods. Don’t let them be heard in your mouth!”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:11 Lit. shall eat
  2. Exodus 23:12 Lit. your donkey