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And you shall speak to the Israelites, saying, ‘Any man when he curses his God shall bear his sin.

And he who blasphemes Yahweh's name certainly shall be put to death; the whole community certainly shall stone him. As the alien, so the native shall be put to death at blaspheming his name.

And when a man causes a physical defect in his fellow citizen according to what he has done, so it shall be done to him:

And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. It is a Jubilee; it shall be for you, and you shall return. You must return—everyone to his property and everyone to his clan.

"‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

"‘When your brother becomes poor and he sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come, and he shall redeem the thing sold by his brother.

But if a man does not have a redeemer, then he prospers and he finds enough for his redemption,

then he shall calculate the years of its selling, and he shall refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his property.

But if his hand does not find enough to refund to him, then what he has sold shall be in the buyer's hand until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall go out of the buyer's hand in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his property.

"‘And if a man sells a residential house in a walled city, then it shall be his redemption until completing a year after his selling; its redemption shall last a year.

But if it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, then the house that is in the walled city shall belong to the buyer in perpetuity throughout his generations; it shall not go out of the buyer's hand in the Jubilee.

And whatever anyone redeems from the Levites then must go out of the buyer's hand in the Jubilee, including a house's selling in his city's property, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.

And he and his sons with him shall go out from you, and he shall return to his clan, and to the property of his ancestors he shall return.

after he is sold redemption shall be for him; one of his brothers may redeem him,

or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or one of his close relatives from his clan may redeem him; or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

And he shall calculate with his buyer from the year of his selling himself until the Jubilee; and the value of his selling shall be according to the number of years—it shall be with him like a hired worker's days.

If there are still many years, in keeping with them he shall restore his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

And if there are a few years left until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall calculate for himself; he shall restore his redemption according to the number of his years.

And if he is not redeemed by any of these ways, then he and his sons with him shall go out in the Year of Jubilee.

"‘And if a man consecrates his house as a holy object for Yahweh, then the priest shall set a value on it, either good or bad; just as the priest sets a value on it, so it shall remain.