Exodus 23:11

Tree of Life Version

But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat. Whatever they leave behind, the animals of the field may eat. You are to deal with your vineyard and your olive grove in the same way.

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:31

“Furthermore, we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.

Nehemiah 10:32

When the peoples of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain on Shabbat, we will not buy from them on Shabbat or on a holy day. Also every seventh year we will forego working the land and the debt of every hand.

Exodus 23:10

“For six years you are to sow your land and gather the increase.

Exodus 23:12

“You are to do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you will rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and also the son of your handmaid and the outsider may be refreshed.

Leviticus 25:20

Now if you ask: What are we to eat during the seventh year if, see, we are not to sow, nor gather in our increase?

Leviticus 25:22

When you sow during the eighth year, you will still be eating the old, stored harvest until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.

Numbers 16:14

What’s more, you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you now gouge out the eyes of those men? We won’t come!”

Deuteronomy 15:11

“For there will never cease to be poor people in the land. Therefore I am commanding you, saying, ‘You must surely open your hand to your brother—to your needy and poor in your land.’