I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield the produce for three years,

He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

You must celebrate it as a pilgrim festival to the Lord for seven days in the year. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month.

If you say, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’

This is to be a perpetual statute for you to make atonement for the Israelites for all their sins once a year.” So he did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.