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And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.

And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, and they took the man who had been cursing outside the tent-circle and had him stoned. The children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.

And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.

Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.

These are the rules, decisions, and laws, which the Lord made between himself and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.

These are the orders which the Lord gave to Moses for the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.

Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;

Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,

So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war,

Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel,

The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag.

But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.