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On Mount Sinai, Moses overlooks a promised Canaanite landscape while teaching Israelite families that the land itself will rest before the sanctuary. Cultivated terraces fade into one quiet uncultivated field. No stone tablets, written law, humanoid deity, conquest, blood, or modern agriculture.
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Leviticus 25:1-2

The land receives a Sabbath

Sabbath Years and Jubilee · Leviticus 25

Story guide: On Mount Sinai, Moses overlooks a promised Canaanite landscape while teaching Israelite families that the land itself will rest before the sanctuary.

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1And Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,

2Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you come into the land that I am giving to you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.

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