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But the field of the common-land of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.

Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you.

You shall not rule over him with rigor, but you shall fear your God.

And you may take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with rigor.

And if there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption.

"But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,

and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,

"And if by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,

"And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

"But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

But for their sake I will remember the covenant of 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 he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him.

But if he wants at all to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth to your valuation.

But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.

But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore;

but the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a devoted field; it shall be the possession of the priest.

"But the firstborn of the animals, which should be the LORD's firstborn, no man shall dedicate; whether it is an ox or sheep, it is the LORD's.

No person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death.

But the Levites were not numbered among them by their fathers' tribe;

but you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, over all its furnishings, and over all things that belong to it; they shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they shall attend to it and camp around the tabernacle.