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A fertile farm shows six orderly cultivated plots and one seventh plot resting unplowed, where families, hired workers, servants, resident foreigners, livestock, and wild animals freely share volunteer produce. Exact six worked plus one resting plot; no harvesting crews in seventh plot, hunger, hierarchy, fences excluding poor, or visible deity.
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Leviticus 25:3-7

Six years of work, the seventh of rest

Sabbath Years and Jubilee · Leviticus 25

Story guide: A fertile farm shows six orderly cultivated plots and one seventh plot resting unplowed, where families, hired workers, servants, resident foreigners, livestock, and wild animals freely share volunteer produce. Exact six worked plus one resting plot; no harvesting crews in seventh plot, hunger, hierarchy, fences excluding poor, or visible deity.

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3For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather its produce.

4But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of complete rest for the land, a sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field, and you shall not prune your vineyard.

5You shall not reap the aftergrowth of your harvest, and you shall not gather the grapes of your unpruned vine; it shall be a year of complete rest for the land.

6The Sabbath produce of the land shall be for you for food—for you, for your male servant, for your female servant, for your hired worker, and for your resident foreigner who dwells with you.

7And for your livestock, and for the wild animals that are in your land, all its produce shall be for food.

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