For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard. Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have relief, and your homeborn slave and the resident alien may be refreshed. Be attentive to all that I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips. (Exodus 23:10-13, NRSV)
6 days God worked in creation and on the 7th day God rested. So it is with us, we work for 6 days and on the 7th we should rest.
And we are also told to let our fields rest every 7th year. Work them for 6 but the 7th let them go and allow those who are in need to feed off of their crops.
Do we do this?
Do we rest?
Do we rest the land?
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