Leviticus 25:2
Good News Translation
to give the following regulations to the people of Israel. When you enter the land that the LORD is giving you, you shall honor the LORD by not cultivating the land every seventh year.

New Revised Standard Version
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land shall observe a sabbath for the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
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.

New American Bible
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, observe the rest of the sabbath of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, observe the rest of the sabbath of the Lord.

When ye

Leviticus 14:34 When you shall come into the land of Chanaan, which I will give you for a possession, if there be the plague or leprosy in a house:

Deuteronomy 32:8,49 When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel. . . .

Deuteronomy 34:4 And the Lord said to him: This is the land, for which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to thy seed. Thou hast seen it with thy eyes, and shalt not pass over to it.

Psalm 24:1,2 On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein. . . .

Psalm 115:16 The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given to the children of men.

Isaiah 8:8 And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel.

Jeremiah 27:5 I made the earth, and the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and I have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes.

keep [heb] rest

Leviticus 23:32 It is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls beginning on the ninth day of the month. From evening until evening you shall celebrate your sabbaths.

a sabbath

Leviticus 26:34,35 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation. When you shall be . . .

Exodus 23:10 Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof.

2 Chronicles 36:21 That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.

Context
The Sabbatical Year
1And the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying: 2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, observe the rest of the sabbath of the Lord.3Six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof.…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying:

Leviticus 25:3
Six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof.

Leviticus 25:1
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