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fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.

You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.'"

For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land-a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you-for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,

and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All of its growth may serve as food.

So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.

The fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you; you are not to sow or reap what grows by itself or harvest the untended vines.

For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.

In proportion to a greater number of years you shall increase the price, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.

Do not take advantage of one another, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.

Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,

As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.

But the open fields around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.

You must not lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.

If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.