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"These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the LORD offerings by fire, burnt offerings and cereal offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day;

You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD seven days in the year; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.

You shall dwell in booths for seven days; all that are native in Israel shall dwell in booths,

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

Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.

Every sabbath day Aaron shall set it in order before the LORD continually on behalf of the people of Israel as a covenant for ever.

And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the offerings by fire to the LORD, a perpetual due."

He who kills a beast shall make it good, life for life.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has disfigured a man, he shall be disfigured.

You shall have one law for the sojourner and for the native; for I am the LORD your God."

but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

The sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you;

for your cattle also and for the beasts that are in your land all its yield shall be for food.

And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family.

For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat what it yields out of the field.

According to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years for crops he shall sell to you.

If the years are many you shall increase the price, and if the years are few you shall diminish the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.

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

I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years.