Exodus 23:11 “but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that t…”

Exodus 23:11

but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

World English Bible

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

American Standard Version

but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

Geneva Bible 1599

But the seuenth yeere thou shalt let it rest and lie still, that the poore of thy people may eat, and what they leaue, the beastes of the fielde shall eate. In like maner thou shalt doe with thy vineyard, and with thine oliue trees.

Darby Translation

but in the seventh thou shalt let it rest and lie [fallow], that the poor of thy people may eat [of it]; and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thine olive-tree.

Young's Literal Translation

and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard — to thine olive-yard.

Bible in Basic English

But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.

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Cross references

“the seventh”

Leviticus 25:2–7 Leviticus 25:20 Leviticus 25:22 Leviticus 25:11 Leviticus 25:12 Leviticus 26:34

Leviticus 25:2–7 · BSB

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

Leviticus 25:20 · BSB

Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’

Leviticus 25:22 · BSB

While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.

Leviticus 25:11 · BSB

The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.

Leviticus 25:12 · BSB

For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.

Leviticus 26:34 · BSB

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,

12For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.

Read Exodus 23