Agriculture: Laws Concerning

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Verses

26 references
  1. Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
  2. If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.
  3. If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.
  4. For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce, …
  5. Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
  6. And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
  7. When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
  8. You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
  9. You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
  10. When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten. …
  11. “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD. …
  12. You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.
  13. You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.
  14. Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land. …
  15. Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
  16. …but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
  17. Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.
  18. Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
  19. When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.
  20. When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
  21. If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. …
  22. Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;
  23. …then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
  24. The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
  25. Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds; …
  26. At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.