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In proportion to the multitude of years you shall increase the price thereof, and in proportion to the fewness of years you shall decrease the price of it; for according to the number of the years of produce does he sell to you.

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

And if you shall say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? For we shall not sow, nor gather in the produce thereof;

Then I will send my blessings upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

Surely the land shall not be sold outright; for the land is mine; you are strangers and sojourners with me.

And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

And if it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be confirmed for ever to him who bought it throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.

Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses which are in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have the right to redeem for ever.

And if a man purchases of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall be released in the year of jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possessions among the children of Israel.

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

And if your brother becomes poor and stretches out his hand for help, you shall not look upon him as a stranger or a sojourner; he shall live with you.

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

But as for your male servants and your female servants whom you may have from among the people that are round about you, of them shall you buy bondmen and bondwomen.

And you shall bequeath them to your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; you may make slaves of them for ever; but as for your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not compel them to do hard work.

If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

For to me the children 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 nor graven images, neither shall you erect obelisks for yourselves, nor shall you set up any image of stones in your land to bow down to them or worship them; for I am the LORD your God.

For I will return to you and make you great and multiply you and establish my covenant with you.

I also will do this to you: I will visit you with terror, leprosy, scab, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes and cause life to waste away; and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

And if you will not yet for all these things hearken to me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.