“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.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.