1. The Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai:
2. “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath to the Lord.
3. Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,
4. but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest – a Sabbath to the Lord. You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
5. You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.
6. You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,
7. your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land – all its produce will be for you to eat.