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But you shall not kill an ox or a sheep and her young in one day.

"Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.

But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work."

but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord . You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.

But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.

Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.

You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.

You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.

If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.

"But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,

if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

"And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,

"But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me,

"But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,

But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.

But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord ."

But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.