Leviticus 25:6
Good News Translation
Although the land has not been cultivated during that year, it will provide food for you, your slaves, your hired men, the foreigners living with you,

New Revised Standard Version
You may eat what the land yields during its sabbath—you, your male and female slaves, your hired and your bound laborers who live with you;

New American Bible
While the land has its sabbath, all its produce will be food to eat for you yourself and for your male and female slave, for your laborer and the tenant who live with you,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy manservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn with thee.

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But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy manservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn with thee.

Exodus 23:11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy vineyard and thy oliveyard.

Acts 2:44 And all they that believed were together and had all things common.

Acts 4:32,34,35 And the multitude of believers had but one heart and one soul. Neither did any one say that aught of the things which he possessed was his own: but all things were common unto them. . . .

Context
The Sabbatical Year
5What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes or the firstfruits as a vintage. For it is a year of rest to the land. 6But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy manservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn with thee.7All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:5
What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes or the firstfruits as a vintage. For it is a year of rest to the land.

Leviticus 25:7
All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.

Leviticus 25:20
But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?

Leviticus 25:21
I will give you my blessing the sixth year: and it shall yield the fruits of three years.

Leviticus 25:5
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