Bible Verses

You shall work for six days, but on the seventh, you shall rest so that your ox and your donkey may also rest and the son of your slave girl and the stranger may have breathing space.

but in the seventh, you will let the land rest and lie fallow. The poor may eat what it produces, and what is left will be eaten by wild animals. It will be the same for your vineyard and your olive grove.

Sabbath and Sabbatical Year of the Land For six years, you will sow your fields and reap their produce,

Do not oppress a stranger; you know what it is to be a stranger, for that is what you were in the land of Egypt.

And do not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the clear-sighted and perverts the sentence of the just.

Keep away from lies. Do not slay the innocent or the just, for I will not forgive the wicked.

Do not deny justice to any of your poor in a lawsuit.

When you see the donkey of a man who hates you falling under its load, do not pass by but help him.

If you see your enemy’s ox or donkey going astray, return it to him.

Do not be partial, not even to the poor.