Exodus 23:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard and with your olive orchard.

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:31

and if the peoples of the land bring in merchandise or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy it from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day, and we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

Nehemiah 10:32

We also lay on ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

Exodus 23:10

“Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,

Exodus 23:12

“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest so that your ox and your donkey may have relief and your homeborn slave and the resident alien may be refreshed.

Leviticus 25:20

Should you ask, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’

Leviticus 25:22

When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the old crop; until the ninth year, when its produce comes in, you shall eat the old.

Numbers 16:14

It is clear you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come!”

Deuteronomy 15:11

Since there will never cease to be some in need on the earth, I therefore command you, ‘Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.’