(A)You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the [a]feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

The Sabbath and the Land

10 “Now (B)you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield, 11 but in the seventh year you shall let it [b]rest and lie uncultivated, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the animal of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:9 Lit soul
  2. Exodus 23:11 Lit drop

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