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And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.

Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.

Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;

And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws.

But for all that, when they are in the land of their haters I will not let them go, or be turned away from them, or give them up completely; my agreement with them will not be broken, for I am the Lord their God.

Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.

And if the person is from five to twenty years old, the value will be twenty shekels for a male, and ten for a female.

And if the person is from one month to five years old, then the value for a male will be five shekels of silver, and for a female three shekels.

And for sixty years old and over, for a male the value will be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten.

But if he is poorer than the value which you have put on him, then let him be taken to the priest, and the priest will put a value on him, such as it is possible for him to give.

It may not be changed in any way, a good given for a bad, or a bad for a good; if one beast is changed for another, the two will be holy.

But if he has a desire to get it back for himself, let him give a fifth more than your value.

But if he has no desire to get it back, or if he has given it for a price to another man, it may not be got back again.

And if a man gives to the Lord a field which he has got for money from another, which is not part of his heritage;

Then the value fixed by you up to the year of Jubilee will be worked out for him by the priest, and in that day he will give the amount of your value as holy to the Lord.

And if it is an unclean beast, then the owner of it may give money to get it back, in agreement with the value fixed by you, by giving a fifth more; or if it is not taken back, let it be given for money in agreement with your valuing.

But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.