Exodus 23:11

Catholic Public Domain Version

But in the seventh year, you shall release it and cause it to rest, so that the poor of your people may eat. And whatever remains, let the beasts of the field eat it. So shall you do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:31

also that, if the people of the land carry in goods for sale or any useful things, so that they might sell them on the day of the Sabbath, that we would not buy them on the Sabbath, nor on a sanctified day, and that we would release the seventh year and the collection of debt from every hand.

Nehemiah 10:32

And we established precepts over ourselves, so that we would give one third part of a shekel each year for the work of the house of our God,

Exodus 23:10

For six years, you shall sow your land and gather its produce.

Exodus 23:12

For six days, you shall work. On the seventh day, you shall cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the newcomer and the son of your handmaid may be refreshed.

Leviticus 25:20

But if you will say: What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow and do not gather our produce?

Leviticus 25:22

And in the eighth year you shall sow, but you shall eat from the old produce, until the ninth year, until what is new matures, you shall eat what is old.

Numbers 16:14

You have led us, it is true, to a land that flows with streams of milk and honey, and you have given us possession of fields and vineyards. But will you also tear out our eyes? We will not come."

Deuteronomy 15:11

The poor will not be absent from the land of your habitation. For this reason, I instruct you to open your hand to your indigent and poor brother, who lives among you in the land.