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On the first day you shall take the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

You shall live in booths for seven days; all that are citizens in Israel shall live in booths,

Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.

You shall put pure frankincense with each row, to be a token offering for the bread, as an offering by fire to the Lord .

They shall be for Aaron and his descendants, who shall eat them in a holy place, for they are most holy portions for him from the offerings by fire to the Lord , a perpetual due.

Anyone who kills an animal shall make restitution for it, life for life.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to be suffered.

One who kills an animal shall make restitution for it; but one who kills a human being shall be put to death.

You shall have one law for the alien and for the citizen: for I am the Lord your God.

Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land shall observe a sabbath for the Lord .

but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of complete rest for the land, a sabbath for the Lord : you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

You shall not reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your unpruned vine: it shall be a year of complete rest for the land.

for your livestock also, and for the wild animals in your land all its yield shall be for food.

And you shall hallow the fiftieth year and you shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you: you shall return, every one of you, to your property and every one of you to your family.

That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you: you shall not sow, or reap the aftergrowth, or harvest the unpruned vines.

For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat only what the field itself produces.

When you buy from your neighbor, you shall pay only for the number of years since the jubilee; the seller shall charge you only for the remaining crop years.

If the years are more, you shall increase the price, and if the years are fewer, you shall diminish the price; for it is a certain number of harvests that are being sold to you.

You shall not cheat one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

I will order my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will yield a crop for three years.