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You must not reap your harvest's aftergrowth, and you must not harvest the grapes of your unpruned vines—it shall be a year of complete rest for the land.

And a Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you: for you and for your slave and for your slave woman and for your hired worker and for your temporary residents who are dwelling as aliens with you;

and all its yield shall be for your domestic animal and for the wild animal, which are in your land to eat.

"‘And you shall count for yourself seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years, and they shall be for you time periods of years: forty-nine years.

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.

then I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will make the yield for three years.

And in all your property's land you must provide redemption for the land.

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

However, village houses that have no surrounding wall shall be considered open country; there is redemption for it, and in the Jubilee it shall go out of the buyer's hand.

"‘As for the cities of the Levites, that is, the houses in their property's cities, it shall be a lasting redemption for the Levites.

But a field of their cities' pastureland must not be sold, because it is their property for all time.

You must not give your money to him with interest or give your food for profit.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to be as God for you.

"‘As for your slave and your slave woman who are yours, from the nations that are all around you, from them you may buy a slave or a slave woman.

And you may buy also from the children of the temporary residents who are dwelling with you as aliens and from their clan who are with you, who have children in your land; indeed, they may be as property for you.

And you may pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you to take possession of as property for all time—you may let them work. But as for your countrymen, the Israelites, you shall not rule with ruthlessness over one another.

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

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.

Indeed, the Israelites are servants for me; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'"

"‘You shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to worship before it, because I am Yahweh your God.