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And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.

Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.

He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.

For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;

But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.

That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land.

And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines.

For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field.

And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.

And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.

And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;

Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.