Leviticus 25:5-8

⁵What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes of the firstfruits as a vintage: for it is a year of rest to the land:

⁶But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy manservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn with thee:

⁷All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.

⁸Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years, that is to say, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine years: