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Originally Posted by MiamiCandy
Much better from Exodus is
23:11 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.
So basically every seventh year the Israelites were to leave their fields unharvested, so that the poor would have something to eat. Isn't that nice?
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Yes, but what you do not seem to realize is that the Yids never planted anything in the fields that they could not harvest, so the poor got the odd weed and stalk of grass.
Admit it, you are an innocent abroad and not really fitted for a Godly life, are you?