1. Then the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying:
2. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord.
3. For six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruit,
4. but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of complete rest for the land, a sabbath for the Lord. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
5. That which grows by itself from your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vines, for it is a year of complete rest for the land.
6. The sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, and for your male and female servants, and for your hired servant, and for your stranger who sojourns with you,
7. and for your livestock, and for the wild animals in your land, shall all its increase be food.
8. You shall count seven sabbath weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9. Then you shall sound the horn blasts on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall make the sound of the horn throughout all your land.