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…

But the seventh year you shall let it rest, and lie still ,
&c.] From tillage, and make its fruits common, as the Ta…

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…