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For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field.

According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops.

Therefore you shall not oppress one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years.

"The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me.

And if a man purchases a house from the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

But the field of the common-land of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.

You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit.

For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have--from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

And you may take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with rigor.

Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be according to the time of a hired servant for him.

For the children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 7:12-24; 28:1-68">[xr] "You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.

"For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.

I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

"And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.