1. When Moses was on Mount Sinai, the Lord told him
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.
14-15. So when you buy or sell farmland, the price is to be determined by the number of crops it can produce before the next Year of Celebration. Don't try to cheat.
18-19. If you obey my laws and teachings, you will live safely in the land and enjoy its abundant crops.
36-37. Don't take advantage of them by charging any kind of interest or selling them food for profit. Instead, honour me by letting them stay where they now live.
51-52. The longer the time until then, the more you will have to pay.