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- Catholic Giving - About USCCB The Sabbatical Year. 1The LORD
said to Moses on Mount Sinai: 2* Speak to the Israelites and
tell them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, let the
land, too, keep a sabbath for the LORD. 3For six years you may
sow your field, and for six years prune your vineyard, gathering
in their produce.a 4But during the seventh year the land shall
have a sabbath of complete rest, a sabbath for the LORD,b when
you may neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. 5The
aftergrowth of your harvest you shall not reap, nor shall you
pick the grapes of your untrimmed vines. It shall be a year of
rest for the land. 6While the land has its sabbath, all its
produce will be food to eat for you yourself and for your male
and female slave, for your laborer and the tenant who live with
you, 7and likewise for your livestock and for the wild animals
on your land. The Jubilee Year. 8* You shall count seven weeks
of years—seven ti