1. Then Adonai said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
2. “Speak to Bnei-Yisrael and tell them: When you come into the land which I give you, then the land is to keep a Shabbat to Adonai.
3. For six years you may sow your field and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits.
4. But in the seventh year there is to be a Shabbat rest for the land—a Shabbat to Adonai. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.
5. You are not to reap what grows by itself during your harvest nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. It is to be a year of Shabbat rest for the land.
6. Whatever the Shabbat of the land produces will be food for yourself, for your servant, for your maidservant, for your hired worker and for the outsider dwelling among you.
7. Even for your livestock and for the animals that are in your land—all its increase will be enough food.
8. “You are to count off seven Shabbatot of years—seven times seven years, so that the time is seven Shabbatot of years—49 years.