This is the first mention of the Sabbatical year; the law for it is given at length in (Leviticus 25:2). Both the Sabbatical year and t…

The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from Exodus 23:10 to th…

And six years you shall sow. Another Sabbatical institution (Sabbathismus) follows, namely, that of years, in reference to the cu…

And six years you shall sow your land ,
The land of Canaan, given to their ancestors and to them, and which they wer…

Every seventh year the land was to rest. They must not plow or sow it; what the earth produced of itself was to be eaten and not stored up. This la…