Exodus 23:11 Cross References
Exodus 23:11
11: but let the land rest and lie fallow during the seventh year. Then let the poor among you harvest any volunteer crop that may come up. Leave the rest for the animals to eat. The same applies to your vineyards and olive groves.
Leviticus 25:22
- As you plant the seed in the eighth year, you will still be eating the produce of the previous year. In fact, you will eat from the old crop until the new harvest comes in the ninth year.'
Leviticus 26:34
- Then at last the land will make up for its missed Sabbath years as it lies desolate during your years of exile in the land of your enemies. Then the land will finally rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
- As the land lies in ruins, it will take the rest you never allowed it to take every seventh year while you lived in it.
Leviticus 25:20
- But you might ask, `What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?'
Leviticus 25:2
- "Give these instructions to the Israelites: When you have entered the land I am giving you as an inheritance, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD every seventh year.
- For six years you may plant your fields and prune your vineyards and harvest your crops,
- but during the seventh year the land will enjoy a Sabbath year of rest to the LORD. Do not plant your crops or prune your vineyards during that entire year.
- And don't store away the crops that grow naturally or process the grapes that grow on your unpruned vines. The land is to have a year of total rest.
- But you, your male and female slaves, your hired servants, and any foreigners who live with you may eat the produce that grows naturally during the Sabbath year.
Leviticus 25:11
- Yes, the fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year, do not plant any seeds or store away any of the crops that grow naturally, and do not process the grapes that grow on your unpruned vines.
- It will be a jubilee year for you, and you must observe it as a special and holy time. You may, however, eat the produce that grows naturally in the fields that year.