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"If someone lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare and lets his animal loose so that it grazes in another person's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

but in the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie uncultivated, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the animal of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

"For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as the stranger residing with you, may refresh themselves.

"And I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from you.

"I will not drive them out from you in a single year, so that the land will not become desolate and the animals of the field become too numerous for you.

"Have them construct a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

"And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried.

"You shall also make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps so that the tabernacle will be a unit.

"You shall also make fifty clasps of bronze, and you shall put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it will be a unit.

"And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar, so that the netting will reach halfway up the altar.

"Its poles shall be inserted into the rings, so that the poles will be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.

"And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a tunic of checkered work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that he may serve as priest to Me.

"It shall have two shoulder pieces joined to its two ends, so that it may be joined.

"And they shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a violet cord, so that it will be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece will not come loose from the ephod.

"There shall be an opening at its top in the middle of it; around its opening there shall be a binding of woven work, like the opening of a coat of mail, so that it will not be torn.

"It shall be on Aaron when he ministers; and its sound shall be heard when he enters and leaves the Holy Place before the LORD, so that he will not die.

"It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall take away the guilt of the holy things which the sons of Israel consecrate, regarding all their holy gifts; and it shall always be on his forehead, so that they may be accepted before the LORD.

"Then you shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him; and you shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, so that they may serve Me as priests.

"And they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they enter the tent of meeting, or when they approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they do not incur guilt and die. It shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.

"The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, so that they may be anointed and ordained in them.