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Leviticus 25:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Leviticus 25:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 25
Year of the Sabbath.[a] 1 The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel saying to them: When you come into the land that I am giving you, the land is to keep a Sabbath to the Lord. 3 You shall sow the fields for six years and you shall prune the vineyard and harvest its fruit for six years,
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- Leviticus 25:1 Every seven years the soil was to be allowed to rest (see Ex 23:10-13); this was a way of reminding the people that the earth belongs to the Lord. When Israel had become an agricultural society, it was tempted to think of itself as self-sufficient.
