Leviticus 25 :1

Leviticus 25:1 says, And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,  Verse two adds, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.  God spoke to Moses on Mt. Sinai, when Moses was alone with God.  Sometimes we may need to get alone with God in order to hear what He has to say to us.  God told Moses to tell the people of Israel when they came into the land He was giving them that they were to observe His Sabbath.  Whatever we have today as followers of Christ is a gift from God, and we should keep His commandments.  Verse three continues, Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;  The people of Israel were to sow and reap for six years.  Verse four declares, But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.  The seven year was to be a year long Sabbath to God.  The land was to lay fallow.  Today, we don't even want to allow one day a week to be totally dedicated to God, much less ever seventh year.  Verse five adds, That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.  Even anything that grew on its own was to be left unharvested by the landowner.  When God said it was to be a year of rest for the ground, He meant it, but the land could still produce on its own or by the provision of God.  Verse six continues, And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,  Verse seven concludes, And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.  Matthew Henry says that this meant that all the people and animals were to have all the things that grew that year in common, just as the early church had all things in common.  They were to rely on God, just as we should today.