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So they placed him in custody until they were able to make a clear legal decision for themselves based on words from the mouth of the Lord .

Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,

One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, life for life.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth—just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

There will be one regulation for you, whether a foreigner or a native citizen, for I am the Lord your God.'"

your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land—all its produce will be for you to eat.

So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield the produce for three years,

The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.

In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.

If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption,

As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption.

You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

"‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you—you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.

You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption,

but if only a few years remain until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption.

"‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.

Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.