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

But if he has not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

"If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a whole year after its sale; for a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

And if one of the Levites does not exercise his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city of their possession shall be released in the jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.

But the fields of common land belonging to their cities may not be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

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

As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you.

You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession for ever; you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

If there are still many years, according to them he shall refund out of the price paid for him the price for his redemption.

If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall make a reckoning with him; according to the years of service due from him he shall refund the money for his redemption.

For to me the people of Israel are servants, they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

"You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no graven image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down to them; for I am the LORD your God.

And your threshing shall last to the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last to the time for sowing; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely.

And I will have regard for you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and will confirm my covenant with you.

And you shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.

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

And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, then I will chastise you again sevenfold for your sins,

and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will smite you sevenfold for your sins.