Exodus 23:11

New Century Version

Then during the seventh year, do not plow or plant your land. If any food grows there, allow the poor people to have it, and let the wild animals eat what is left. You should do the same with your vineyards and your orchards of olive trees.

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:31

Foreigners may bring goods or grain to sell on the Sabbath, but we will not buy on the Sabbath or any holy day. Every seventh year we will not plant, and that year we will forget all that people owe us.

Nehemiah 10:32

We will be responsible for the commands to pay for the service of the Temple of our God. We will give an eighth of an ounce of silver each year.

Exodus 23:10

“For six years you are to plant and harvest crops on your land.

Exodus 23:12

“You should work six days a week, but on the seventh day you must rest. This lets your ox and your donkey rest, and it also lets the slave born in your house and the foreigner be refreshed.

Leviticus 25:20

“ ‘But you might ask, “If we don’t plant seeds or gather crops, what will we eat the seventh year?”

Leviticus 25:22

When you plant in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the old crop; you will eat the old crop until the harvest of the ninth year.

Numbers 16:14

You haven’t brought us into a fertile land; you haven’t given us any land with fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? No! We will not come!”

Deuteronomy 15:11

There will always be poor people in the land, so I command you to give freely to your neighbors and to the poor and needy in your land.