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Positive commandment 135 of 248

To cease from tilling the land (in that year)

Rembrandt, Moses with the Ten Commandments (1659), Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Public domain.

Maimonides

To cease from tilling the land (in that year) as it is said, “In earing time and in harvest time thou shalt rest” (Ex. 34:21).

Exodus 34:21

KJV
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
ASV
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
WEB
“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
JPS
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.