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When a calf or a lamb or a kid is born, it must not be taken from its mother for seven days, but after that it is acceptable as a food offering.

You have six days in which to do your work, but remember that the seventh day, the Sabbath, is a day of rest. On that day do not work, but gather for worship. The Sabbath belongs to the Lord , no matter where you live.

Offer your food offerings to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day you shall again gather for worship, but you shall do none of your daily work.

On that day do none of your daily work, but gather for worship. Your descendants are to observe this regulation for all time to come, no matter where they live.

Whoever kills an animal shall replace it, but whoever kills a human being shall be put to death.

But the seventh year is to be a year of complete rest for the land, a year dedicated to the Lord . Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards.

If there are many years, the price shall be higher, but if there are only a few years, the price shall be lower, because what is being sold is the number of crops the land can produce.

Do not cheat an Israelite, but obey the Lord your God.

But someone may ask what there will be to eat during the seventh year, when no fields are planted and no crops gathered.

But if you do not have enough money to buy the land back, it remains under the control of the one who bought it until the next Year of Restoration. In that year it will be returned to its original owner.

But if you do not buy it back within the year, you lose the right of repurchase, and the house becomes the permanent property of the purchasers and their descendants; it will not be returned in the Year of Restoration.

But houses in unwalled villages are to be treated like fields; the original owner has the right to buy them back, and they are to be returned in the Year of Restoration.

But the pasture land around the Levite cities shall never be sold; it is their property forever.

Do not charge Israelites any interest, but obey God and let them live near you.

Do not treat them harshly, but obey your God.

and you may leave them as an inheritance to your children, whom they must serve as long as they live. But you must not treat any Israelites harshly.

I will punish you. I will bring disaster on you—incurable diseases and fevers that will make you blind and cause your life to waste away. You will plant your crops, but it will do you no good, because your enemies will conquer you and eat what you have grown.

"If after all of this punishment you still do not listen to me, but continue to defy me,

"But your descendants will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors, who resisted me and rebelled against me,

But even then, when they are still in the land of their enemies, I will not completely abandon them or destroy them. That would put an end to my covenant with them, and I am the Lord their God.