The Sabbath Year

25 Then[fn] Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai,[fn] saying, 2 “Speak to the Israelites,[fn] and say to them, ‘When you[fn] come into the land that I am about to give to you,[fn] then[fn] the land shall observe a Sabbath for Yahweh. 3 Six years you[fn] shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and you shall gather its yield. 4 But[fn] in the seventh year it shall be a Sabbath of complete rest[fn] for the land—a Sabbath for Yahweh; you[fn] must not sow your field, and you must not prune your vineyard. 5 You[fn] must not reap your harvest’s aftergrowth, and you must not harvest the grapes of your unpruned vines—it shall be a year of complete rest[fn] for the land. 6 And a Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you:[fn] for you[fn] and for your slave and for your slave woman and for your hired worker and for your temporary residents[fn] who are dwelling as aliens with you; 7 and all its yield shall be for your[fn] domestic animal and for the wild animal, which are in your land to eat.