11 but in the seventh year you shall let it [a]rest and lie uncultivated, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the animal of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

12 (A)For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as the stranger residing with you, may refresh themselves. 13 Now (B)concerning everything which I have said to you, be careful; and (C)do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard [b]from your mouth.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:11 Lit drop
  2. Exodus 23:13 Lit on

11 but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused.(A) Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

12 “Six days do your work,(B) but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.(C)

13 “Be careful(D) to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods;(E) do not let them be heard on your lips.(F)

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