Signifying a rest period
the Holy Bible

--Genesis--

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. (2:2)

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. (2:3)

--Leviticus--

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, (23:1)

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts. (23:2)

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work [therein]: it [is] the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. (23:3)

These [are] the feasts of the Lord, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. (23:4)

In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the Lord's passover. (23:5)

And on the fifteenth day of the same month [is] the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. (23:6)

In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. (23:7)

But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day [is] an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work [therein]. (23:8)

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, (23:9)

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: (23:10)

And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. (23:11)

And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord. (23:12)

And the meat offering thereof [shall be] two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord [for] a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof [shall be] of wine, the fourth [part] of an hin. (23:13)

And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. (23:14)

And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: (23:15)

Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord. (23:16)

Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the Lord. (23:17)

And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be [for] a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, [even] an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the Lord. (23:18)

Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. (23:19)

And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [for] a wave offering before the Lord with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. (23:20)

And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work [therein: it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. (23:21)

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I [am] the Lord your God. (23:22)

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, (23:23)

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first [day] of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. (23:24)

Ye shall do no servile work [therein]: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. (23:25)

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, (23:26)

Also on the tenth [day] of this seventh month [there shall be] a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. (23:27)

And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it [is] a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God. (23:28)

For whatsoever soul [it be] that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. (23:29)

And whatsoever soul [it be] that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. (23:30)

Ye shall do no manner of work: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. (23:31)

It [shall be] unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth [day] of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath. (23:32)

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, (23:33)

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month [shall be] the feast of tabernacles [for] seven days unto the Lord. (23:34)

On the first day [shall be] an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work [therein]. (23:35)

Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it [is] a solemn assembly; [and] ye shall do no servile work [therein]. (23:36)

These [are] the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: (23:37)

Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the Lord. (23:38)

Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day [shall be] a sabbath, and on the eighth day [shall be] a sabbath. (23:39)

And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. (23:40)

And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. [It shall be] a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. (23:41)

Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: (23:42)

That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the Lord your God. (23:43)

And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord. (23:44)

And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, (25:1)

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. (25:2)

Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; (25:3)

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. (25:4)

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. (25:5)

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, (25:6)

And for thy cattle, and for the beast that [are] in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. (25:7)

And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. (25:8)

Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. (25:9)

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. (25:10)

A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine undressed. (25:11)

For it [is] the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. (25:12)

In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. (25:13)

And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: (25:14)

According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, [and] according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: (25:15)

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for [according] to the number [of the years] of the fruits doth he sell unto thee. (25:16)

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the Lord your God. (25:17)

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. (25:18)

And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. (25:19)

And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: (25:20)

Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. (25:21)

And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat [yet] of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old [store]. (25:22)

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me. (25:23)

And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. (25:24)

If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away [some] of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. (25:25)

And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; (25:26)

Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession. (25:27)

But if he be not able to restore [it] to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. (25:28)

And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; [within] a full year may he redeem it. (25:29)

And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that [is] in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee. (25:30)

But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee. (25:31)

Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. (25:32)

And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in [the year of] jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites [are] their possession among the children of Israel. (25:33)

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it [is] their perpetual possession. (25:34)

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. (25:35)

Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. (25:36)

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. (25:37)

I [am] the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, [and] to be your God. (25:38)

And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: (25:39)

[But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee: (25:40)

And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. (25:41)

For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. (25:42)

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. (25:43)

Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. (25:44)

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. (25:45)

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour. (25:46)

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother [that dwelleth] by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger [or] sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: (25:47)

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: (25:48)

Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or [any] that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. (25:49)

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him. (25:50)

If [there be] yet many years [behind], according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. (25:51)

And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, [and] according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption. (25:52)

[And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. (25:53)

And if he be not redeemed in these [years], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, [both] he, and his children with him. (25:54)

For unto me the children of Israel [are] servants; they [are] my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the Lord your God. (25:55)

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. (26:34)

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. (26:35)

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