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The loaves of bread will belong to Aaron and his descendants, who must eat them in a sacred place, for they are most holy. It is the permanent right of the priests to claim this portion of the special gifts presented to the Lord ."

During the fight, this son of an Israelite woman blasphemed the Name of the Lord with a curse. So the man was brought to Moses for judgment. His mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.

Say to the people of Israel: Those who curse their God will be punished for their sin.

"Anyone who kills another person's animal must pay for it in full—a live animal for the animal that was killed.

a fracture for a fracture, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Whatever anyone does to injure another person must be paid back in kind.

"Whoever kills an animal must pay for it in full, but whoever kills another person must be put to death.

For six years you may plant your fields and prune your vineyards and harvest your crops,

Set this year apart as holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan.

This fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year you must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that grow on their own, and don't gather the grapes from your unpruned vines.

It will be a jubilee year for you, and you must keep it holy. But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own.

Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years.

"The land must never be sold on a permanent basis, for the land belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me.

If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him.

"Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back.

And any property that is sold by the Levites—all houses within the Levitical towns—must be returned in the Year of Jubilee. After all, the houses in the towns reserved for the Levites are the only property they own in all Israel.

They will negotiate the price of their freedom with the person who bought them. The price will be based on the number of years from the time they were sold until the next Year of Jubilee—whatever it would cost to hire a worker for that period of time.

If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they will repay a small amount for their redemption.

For the people of Israel belong to me. They are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

You must keep my Sabbath days of rest and show reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord .

"I will give you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land.