1. The Lord said to Moses at Mount Sinai,
2. ‘Speak to the Israelites and say to them: “When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the Lord.
3. For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.
4. But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.
5. Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.
6. Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you – for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you,
7. as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.
8. ‘ “Count seven sabbath years – seven times seven years – so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years.
9. Then sound the trumpet everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.
10. Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.