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But as for the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.

But the fields of the open land about their cities may not be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.

Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.

And ye may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession: of them may ye take your bondmen for ever; but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigour.

And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.

But if ye will not hearken unto Me, and will not do all these commandments;

and if ye shall reject My statutes, and if your soul abhor Mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant;

And if in spite of these things ye will not be corrected unto Me, but will walk contrary unto Me;

And if ye will not for all this hearken unto Me, but walk contrary unto Me;

But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

But if he be too poor for thy valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the means of him that vowed shall the priest value him.

But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part thereof unto thy valuation.

But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain unto the year of jubilee, and an abatement shall be made from thy valuation.

But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it; they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.'

But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.

And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the holy furniture, and all the holy vessels, as the camp is to set forward--after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear them; but they shall not touch the holy things, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.