Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit;
“Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce,
but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field may eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.
“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord.