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The land must rest
The Holiness Code extends sacred time to space: not only people and animals but the land itself must periodically lie fallow.
Caretakers of a holy land.
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As God put the first human in the garden to tend it, so God plants Israel in its land to care for it.
Bible reference: Leviticus 25:1–7
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 342
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