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Exodus 23:9-12 Good News Bible (GNB)

9. “Do not ill-treat a foreigner; you know how it feels to be a foreigner, because you were foreigners in Egypt.

10. “For six years sow your field and gather in what it produces.

11. But in the seventh year let it rest, and do not harvest anything that grows on it. The poor may eat what grows there, and the wild animals can have what is left. Do the same with your vineyards and your olive trees.

12. “Work six days a week, but do no work on the seventh day, so that your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals can rest.