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But you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD seven days; on the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious 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 has not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it 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 which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.

But the fields of common land belonging to their cities may not be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.

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

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession for ever; you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall make a reckoning with him; according to the years of service due from him he shall refund the money for his redemption.

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

if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, 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,

"And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, but walk contrary to me,

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

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

but I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought forth 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.

but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall compute the money-value for it according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from your valuation.

But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;