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With the one who bought him he will add the years from the year he sold himself until the Year of Jubilee. The price for him to be set free will be decided upon by the number of years. The time he was with the man who owned him will be as that of a man paid to work for him.

If there are still many years, he will return a part of the price which was given for him.

He will be like a man paid to work for him year by year. Make sure his owner does not make it hard for him.

Even if the price is not paid for him in this way, he will go free in the Year of Jubilee, he and his children.

‘Do not make gods for yourselves. Do not set up for yourselves something to look like a god or a holy object. Do not set up something cut from stone in your land to bow down to. For I am the Lord your God.

I will care for you and give you many children. I will keep My agreement with you.

I will do this to you: I will bring upon you much fear, disease that destroys, and sickness that will waste away the eyes and make the body weak. You will plant your seeds for nothing, for those who hate you will eat it.

If after all of these things you still do not obey Me, I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

You will use your strength for nothing. For your land will not give food, and the trees of the land will not give fruit.

then I will go against you. I Myself will punish you seven times for your sins.

I will bring a sword upon you that will punish you for breaking the agreement. I will send disease among you when you gather together in your cities. So you will be given into the hands of those who hate you.

then I will go against you with anger. I Myself will punish you seven times for your sins.

Yet even when they are in the land of those who hate them, I will not turn away from them. I will not hate them enough to destroy them and break My agreement with them. For I am the Lord their God.

"Say to the sons of Israel, ‘When a man makes a special promise, you will decide upon the worth of this person for the Lord.

For a woman it will be thirty pieces of silver.

For a male from five to twenty years old it will be twenty pieces of silver. For a woman it will be ten pieces of silver.

Your price for a child from one month to five years old will be five pieces of silver for the boy, and three pieces of silver for the girl.

Your price for a person sixty years old and older will be fifteen pieces of silver for the man, and ten pieces of silver for the woman.

He must not have another animal take its place, good for bad or bad for good. If he does trade one animal for another, then both animals will become holy.

‘If a man sets apart to the Lord part of a field he owns, you will decide upon its price by the seed needed for it. Ten baskets of barley seed will be worth fifty pieces of silver.