2 to say to the community of Israel:After you enter the land that I am giving you, it must be allowed to rest one year out of every seven.
3 You may raise grain and grapes for six years,
4 but the seventh year you must let your fields and vineyards rest in honour of me, your Lord.
5 This is to be a time of complete rest for your fields and vineyards, so don't harvest anything they produce.
6-7 However, you and your slaves and your hired workers, as well as any domestic or wild animals, may eat whatever grows on its own.
8 Once every forty-nine years
9 on the tenth day of the seventh month, which is also the Great Day of Forgiveness, trumpets are to be blown everywhere in the land.