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"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘On the fifteenth of this seventh month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to Yahweh.

For seven days you shall bring an offering by fire near to Yahweh. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and bring an offering by fire near to Yahweh; it is a solemn assembly. You shall do no laborious work.

‘On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of Yahweh for seven days, with a rest on the first day and a rest on the eighth day.

And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall be glad before Yahweh your God for seven days.

You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to Yahweh for seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

You shall live in booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live in booths,

"Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you clear oil from beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.

And you shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to Yahweh.

Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.

And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings to Yahweh by fire, his portion forever."

And the one who strikes down the life of an animal shall make restitution for it, life for life.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him.

Thus the one who strikes down an animal shall make restitution for it, but the one who strikes down a man shall be put to death.

There shall be one standard of judgment for you; it shall be for the sojourner as well as the native, for I am Yahweh your God.'"

And the sabbath produce of the land shall be for food; for you and your male and female slaves and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who sojourn with you.

‘You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.

You shall thus set apart as holy the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own possession of land, and each of you shall return to his family.

For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its produce out of the field.

In proportion to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for it is the number of crops it produces that he is selling to you.

So you shall not mistreat one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.