^{1 Ref} Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,

^{2 Ref} "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.

^{3 Ref} Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;

^{4 Ref} but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

^{5 Ref} What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

^{6 Ref} The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

⁷ For your cattle also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all the increase of it be for food.