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"Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

"And you shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.

"You shall put pure frankincense on each row so that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, 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.

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

"You shall also speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If anyone curses his God, then he will bear the responsibility for his sin.

'Moreover, the one who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The stranger as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

'But the one who takes the life of an animal shall make restitution, life for life.

'If someone injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

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

'So the one who kills an animal shall make restitution, but the one who kills a person shall be put to death.

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

"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land which I am going to give you, then the land shall have a Sabbath to the LORD.

'For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce,

but during the seventh year the land shall have a Sabbath rest, a Sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

'You shall not reap your harvest's aftergrowth, and you shall not gather your grapes of untrimmed vines; the land shall have a sabbatical year.

'All of you shall have the Sabbath produce of the land as food; for yourself, your male and female slaves, and your hired worker and your foreign resident, those who live as strangers among you.

'Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its produce to eat.

'You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.

'So you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release throughout 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.