Reference

Exodus 23:11

Seventh-Day Sabbath Sabbath Commandment Land Sabbath / Rest for the Earth

“But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.”

Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

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Sabbath Commandment

Semantic Discovery

50% relevance

This verse was identified through meaning similarity — its content is mathematically close to known verses in this theme, even without sharing the same vocabulary.

Land Sabbath / Rest for the Earth

Semantic Discovery

90% relevance

This verse was identified through meaning similarity — its content is mathematically close to known verses in this theme, even without sharing the same vocabulary.

Counter-Arguments

The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.

Seventh-Day Sabbath

The verse refers to a "seventh year" of rest for the land, not a "seventh day" of rest, and therefore does not explicitly reference the Sabbath as a day.

Sabbath Commandment

This verse refers to a "seventh year" of rest for the land, not a weekly "Sabbath" day, and it does not explicitly state that this practice is a "commandment" or part of the "law" or "Ten Commandments."

Land Sabbath / Rest for the Earth

The primary stated purpose for letting the land rest in this verse is for the poor and beasts to eat, not explicitly for the land's own restoration or a "Land Sabbath" as an inherent principle of rest for the earth itself.

Seventh-Day Sabbath

Related Verses

Leviticus 25:4

“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.”

Exodus 23:12

“Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.”

Exodus 23:10

“And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:”

Leviticus 25:7

“And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.”

Leviticus 25:20

“And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:”

Thematic Connections

Seventh-Day Sabbath Sabbath Commandment Land Sabbath / Rest for the Earth

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