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Positive Commandment #284 of 613

Leave free all produce which grew in the seventh year

Commandment #284a positive obligation from Exodus 23:11, classified under Shemittah and Yovel in the 613 commandments of the Torah.

Scripture

but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

Exodus 23:11

Hebrew

יא וְהַשְּׁבִיעִת תִּשְׁמְטֶנָּה וּנְטַשְׁתָּהּ, וְאָכְלוּ אֶבְיֹנֵי עַמֶּךָ, וְיִתְרָם, תֹּאכַל חַיַּת הַשָּׂדֶה; כֵּן-תַּעֲשֶׂה לְכַרְמְךָ, לְזֵיתֶךָ.

Greek (Septuagint)

11 τῷ δὲ ἑβδόμῳ ἄφεσιν ποιήσεις καὶ ἀνήσεις αὐτήν, καὶ ἔδονται οἱ πτωχοὶ τοῦ ἔθνους σου, τὰ δὲ ὑπολειπόμενα ἔδεται τὰ ἄγρια θηρία. οὕτως ποιήσεις τὸν ἀμπελῶνά σου καὶ τὸν ἐλαιῶνά σου. --

Classification

Type
Positive (Thou Shalt)
Book
exodus
Chapter
23

Scholarly References

Parashah
Mishpatim
Sefer HaChinuch
#84
Mishneh Torah
SeedsThe Sabbatical Year and the Jubilee

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