Feast of Sabbatical Year, The

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Exodus 21:2Torrey ENACTMENTS RESPECTING — Release of all Hebrew servants

  If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

• Exodus 23:11Torrey Kept every seventh year

  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.

• Leviticus 25:2Torrey A sabbath for the land

  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.

• Leviticus 25:4Torrey Kept every seventh year

  But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

• Leviticus 25:5Torrey ENACTMENTS RESPECTING — Cessation of all field labour

  That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

• Leviticus 25:6Torrey ENACTMENTS RESPECTING — The fruits of the earth to be common property

  And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,

• Leviticus 25:7Torrey ENACTMENTS RESPECTING — The fruits of the earth to be common property

  And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

• Leviticus 25:20–22Torrey Surplus of sixth year to provide for

  And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. And ye shall sow the eighth year, and…

• Leviticus 26:34Torrey Jews threatened for neglecting

  Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

• Leviticus 26:35Torrey Jews threatened for neglecting

  As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

• Leviticus 26:43Torrey Jews threatened for neglecting

  The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

• Deuteronomy 15:1–3Torrey ENACTMENTS RESPECTING — Remission of debts

  At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the…