² “When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, but in the seventh he shall go out a free person, without debt.^(A)

Sabbatical Year and Sabbath

¹⁰ “Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,^(A)

¹² “If a member of your community, whether a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold^[a] to you and works for you six years, in the seventh year you shall set that person free.^(A)

⁷ and the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.^(A)

⁸ Just as they have done to me^[a] from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you.

¹³ Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law that I commanded your ancestors and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”^(A)

¹⁴ They would not listen but were stubborn, as their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.^(A)