These verses contain a precept, in which there is much signification. The seventh year, like the seventh day of the week, was sacred, and therefore was to be a sabbath of rest. And it had several very interesting points intended by it. As first: It served to keep up, in the mind of God's people, their sure dependence upon God. He would provide even when there was no tillage. 2ndly, It pointed out their state under God: that they were but tenants, and not the Lords of the soil. The earth is the Lord's. And 3dly, It proved that sweet scripture, Deuteronomy 8:15-16.
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Exodus 23:10-13
10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.e
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.