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The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.

Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.

As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites shall forever have the right of redemption of the houses in the cities belonging to them.

But the open land around their cities may not be sold; for that is their possession for all time.

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

As for the male and female slaves whom you may have, it is from the nations around you that you may acquire male and female slaves.

You may keep them as a possession for your children after you, for them to inherit as property. These you may treat as slaves, but as for your fellow Israelites, no one shall rule over the other with harshness.

If many years remain, they shall pay for their redemption in proportion to the purchase price;

and if few years remain until the jubilee year, they shall compute thus: according to the years involved they shall make payment for their redemption.

For to me the people of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at them; for I am the Lord your God.

You shall eat old grain long stored, and you shall have to clear out the old to make way for the new.

I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you; consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

And if in spite of this you will not obey me, I will continue to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

If you continue hostile to me, and will not obey me, I will continue to plague you sevenfold for your sins.

then I too will continue hostile to you: I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

I will bring the sword against you, executing vengeance for the covenant; and if you withdraw within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into enemy hands.

I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you myself sevenfold for your sins.

And as for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall though no one pursues.

so that I, in turn, continued hostile to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,