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‘So keep My Laws and do what I say, and you will be safe living in the land.

Then the land will give its food, so you can eat all you want and be safe living there.

I will let My good come upon you in the sixth year, so it will give you enough food for three years.

Then he should add up the years since he sold it, and pay what is left of the price to the man to whom he sold it. So he will return to his own land.

‘If your brother becomes poor and is not able to pay you what he owes, then you should help him as you would help a stranger or visitor. So he may live with you.

Do not make him pay for the use of the money he owes you. But fear your God, so your brother may live with you.

‘If your brother becomes so poor that he sells himself to you, do not make him work as a servant.

‘Now a stranger or one visiting you may become rich. And your brother may become so poor that he sells himself to a stranger living among you, or to the children of a stranger's family.

I will give you rain at the right time. So the land will give its food and the trees will give their fruit.

I am the Lord your God Who brought you out of the land of Egypt so you would not be their servants. I have broken loose the heavy load from your back and made you walk straight.

if you turn away from My Laws and do not want to do what I tell you to do, and do not do it, and so break My agreement,

I will turn against you so you will fall in front of those who fight you. Those who hate you will rule over you. You will run away when no one is coming after you.

I will let the wild animals loose among you. They will rob you of your children and destroy your cattle. They will make you few in number, so that your roads will be empty.

I will bring a sword upon you that will punish you for breaking the agreement. I will send disease among you when you gather together in your cities. So you will be given into the hands of those who hate you.

I will destroy the land, so those living in it who hate you will be filled with fear because of it.

So those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of those who hate you, because of their sins. Also because of the sins of their fathers, they will waste away with them.

The religious leader will decide if it is good or bad. Whatever price the religious leader puts on it, so it will be.

‘When a man sets apart his house as holy to the Lord, the religious leader will decide if it is good or bad. Whatever price the religious leader puts on it, so it will be.

They did just as the Lord had told Moses. So he numbered them in the desert of Sinai.

So the people of Israel did this. They did everything the Lord had told Moses.