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

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

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

"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 LORD'S offerings by fire, his portion forever."

'The one who takes the life of an animal shall make it good, 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.

'There shall be one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the LORD your God.'"

'All of you shall have the sabbath products of the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens 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 consecrate 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 property, and each of you shall return to his family.

'For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops 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 a number of crops he is selling to you.

'So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years.

'The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.

'Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

'Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,

'But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property.

'But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not revert in the jubilee.

'As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.