Thematic Bible: The fruits of the earth to be common property
Thematic Bible
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » The fruits of the earth to be common property
For it is a year of horns blowing and shall be holy unto you: how be it, yet ye shall eat of the increase of the field.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » The fruits of the earth to be common property
and 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 do with thy vineyard and thine olive trees.
Nevertheless the Sabbath of the land shall be meat for you: even for thee and thy servant and for thy maid and for thy hired servant and for the stranger that dwelleth with thee: and for thy cattle and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.