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You shall not compel them to do hard work; but shall fear your God.

But as for your male servants and your female servants whom you may have from among the people that are round about you, of them shall you buy bondmen and bondwomen.

And you shall bequeath them to your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; you may make slaves of them for ever; but as for your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not compel them to do hard work.

And if there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according to his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

But if you will not hearken to me and will not do all these commandments,

And if by these things you shall not be disciplined, but continue to walk contrary to me;

And if you will not for all these things hearken to me, but walk contrary to 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, and I became their God; I am the LORD.

But if he is poorer than the valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of the person who vowed shall the priest value him.

But if he wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part to its valuation.

But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and he shall deduct from its valuation.

But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a field devoted; its possession shall be the priests.

But the firstling of an animal, which should be the LORDS firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep, it is the LORDS.

But every devoted thing that a man shall devote to the LORD of all that he has, both of man and beast and of the field of his inheritance, shall not be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.

Every devoted thing which shall be devoted by men shall not be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death.

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

But you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony and over all its vessels and over all that belongs to it; they shall carry the tabernacle and all its vessels; and they shall minister to 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 against the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

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

But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priests office during the lifetime of Aaron their father.