Exodus 23:11

New American Bible - revised edition

But the seventh year you shall let the land lie untilled and fallow, that the poor of your people may eat of it and their leftovers the wild animals may eat. So also shall you do in regard to your vineyard and your olive grove.

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:31

We will not marry our daughters to the local inhabitants, and we will not accept their daughters for our sons.

Nehemiah 10:32

When the local inhabitants bring in merchandise or any kind of grain for sale on the sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or on any other holy day. In the seventh year we will forgo the produce, and forgive every kind of debt.

Exodus 23:10

For six years you may sow your land and gather in its produce.

Exodus 23:12

For six days you may do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and that the son of your maidservant and the resident alien may be refreshed.

Leviticus 25:20

And if you say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow or reap our crop?”

Leviticus 25:22

and when you sow in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the old crop; even into the ninth year, until the crop comes in, you will still be eating from the old crop. Redemption of Property.

Numbers 16:14

Far from bringing us to a land flowing with milk and honey, or giving us fields and vineyards for our inheritance, will you gouge out our eyes? No, we will not go.”

Deuteronomy 15:11

The land will never lack for needy persons; that is why I command you: “Open your hand freely to your poor and to your needy kin in your land.” Hebrew Slaves.