Exodus 23:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat from it and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

Cross References

Leviticus 25:22

When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.

Leviticus 25:20

If you wonder, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce? ”

Exodus 23:10

‘Sow your land for six years and gather its produce.

Exodus 23:12

‘Do your work  for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the resident foreigner may be refreshed.

Numbers 16:14

Furthermore, you didn’t bring us to a land flowing with milk and honey or give us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men?  We will not come! ’

Nehemiah 10:31

When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day.  We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year  and will cancel every debt.

Deuteronomy 15:11

For there will never cease to be poor people in the land;  that is why I am commanding you, “Open your hand willingly to your poor and needy brother in your land.”

Nehemiah 10:32

We will impose the following commands on ourselves: To give four grams of silver  yearly for the service of the house of our God: