Variantly: "And the seventh … and you shall leave it": So that you not say: Why did the Torah institute this? Is it not so that the poor shall eat it? I shall gather it in and distribute it to the poor! It is, therefore, written "And the seventh … and you shall leave it," whereby we are taught that he (must "leave it" even to the extent of) allowing breaches in the fence; but the sages allowed repairs to be made for the general good.