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'But if you say, "What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?"

'The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.

'Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,

'But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property.

'But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not revert in the jubilee.

'But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.

'Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.

'You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.

'You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.

'But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword;

'But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,

'And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,

'Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,

'But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies' land will consume you.

'But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.'"

'But if they are from a month even up to five years old, then your valuation shall be five shekels of silver for the male, and for the female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

'But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be placed before the priest and the priest shall value him; according to the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall value him.

'But if he should ever wish to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of it to your valuation.

'Yet if he will not redeem the field, but has sold the field to another man, it may no longer be redeemed;

'But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation and add to it one-fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.