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You have six days when you can do your work, but the seventh day of each week is holy because it belongs to me. No matter where you live, you must rest on the Sabbath and come together for worship. This law will never change.

but the killing of an animal that belongs to someone else requires only that the animal be replaced.

It's possible to pay the owner for an animal that has been killed, but death is the penalty for murder.

but the seventh year you must let your fields and vineyards rest in honor of me, your Lord .

In the eighth year you will live on what you harvested in the sixth year, but in the ninth year you will eat what you plant and harvest in the eighth year.

But if you don't have the money to pay the present owner a fair price, you will have to wait until the Year of Celebration, when the property will once again become yours.

But a house out in a village may be bought back at any time just like a field. And it must be returned to its original owner in the Year of Celebration.

You can own them, and even leave them to your children when you die, but do not make slaves of your own people or be cruel to them.

But if you want to buy it back, you must pay an additional twenty percent.

But if you decide to buy it back, you must pay an additional twenty percent.

But any time after that, the price will be figured according to the number of years before the next Year of Celebration.

but you cannot buy it back once someone else has bought it.

But those from the Levi tribe were not included

But the Levites will camp around the sacred tent to make sure that no one goes near it and makes me furious with the Israelites.

how the Israelites should arrange their camp: Each tribe must set up camp under its own banner and under the flags of its ancestral families. These camps will be arranged around the sacred tent, but not close to it.

But the Lord killed Nadab and Abihu in the Sinai Desert when they used fire that was unacceptable in their offering to the Lord . And because Nadab and Abihu had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests with their father Aaron.

Moses, I have chosen these Levites from all Israel, and they will belong to me in a special way. When I killed the first-born sons of the Egyptians, I decided that the first-born sons in every Israelite family and the first-born males of their flocks and herds would be mine. But now I accept these Levites in place of the first-born sons of the Israelites.

They belong to me, but I will accept the Levites as substitutes for them, and I will accept the Levites' livestock as substitutes for the Israelites' first-born livestock."

But since there are more first-born sons than Levites, the extra two hundred seventy-three men and boys must be bought back from me.

When the camp is ready to be moved, the Kohathites will be responsible for carrying the sacred objects and the furnishings of the sacred tent. But Aaron and his sons must have already covered those things so the Kohathites won't touch them and die.