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The Sabbath and Land

10 “You shall sow your land six years and harvest its yield, 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat [what the land grows naturally]; whatever they leave the animals of the field may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

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The Sabbatical Year

15 “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release (remission, pardon) from debt. This is the regulation for the release: every [a]creditor shall forgive what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not [b]require repayment from his neighbor and his brother, because the Lord’s release has been proclaimed.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 15:2 Lit master of a loan.
  2. Deuteronomy 15:2 Lit collect.

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