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Leviticus 25:1

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The Sabbath Year

The Lord said to Moses at Mount Sinai,

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Leviticus 25:2

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"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the Lord .

Leviticus 25:3

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For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.

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Leviticus 25:4

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But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord . Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.

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Leviticus 25:5

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Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.

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Leviticus 25:6

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Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you—for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you,

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Leviticus 25:7

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as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

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Leviticus 25:8

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"‘Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years.

Leviticus 25:9

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Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.

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Leviticus 25:10

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Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.

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Leviticus 25:11

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The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.

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Leviticus 25:12

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For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.

Leviticus 25:13

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"‘In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property.

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Leviticus 25:14

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"‘If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.

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Leviticus 25:15

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You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops.

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Leviticus 25:16

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When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops.

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Leviticus 25:17

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Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the Lord your God.

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Leviticus 25:18

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"‘Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land.

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Leviticus 25:19

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Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.

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Leviticus 25:20

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You may ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?"

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Leviticus 25:21

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I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.

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Leviticus 25:22

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While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.

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Leviticus 25:23

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"‘The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers.

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Leviticus 25:24

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Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

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Leviticus 25:25

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"‘If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold.

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Leviticus 25:26

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If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves,

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Leviticus 25:27

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they are to determine the value for the years since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property.

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Leviticus 25:28

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But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.

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Leviticus 25:29

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"‘Anyone who sells a house in a walled city retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time the seller may redeem it.

Leviticus 25:30

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If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer's descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:31

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But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:32

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"‘The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess.

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Leviticus 25:33

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So the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.

Leviticus 25:34

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But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.

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Leviticus 25:35

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"‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you.

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Leviticus 25:36

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Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.

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Leviticus 25:37

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You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.

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Leviticus 25:38

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I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

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Leviticus 25:39

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"‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

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Leviticus 25:40

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They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

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Leviticus 25:41

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Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors.

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Leviticus 25:42

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Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.

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Leviticus 25:43

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Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.

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Leviticus 25:44

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"‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

Leviticus 25:45

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You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.

Leviticus 25:46

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You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

Leviticus 25:47

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"‘If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner's clan,

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Leviticus 25:48

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they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them:

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Leviticus 25:49

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An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper, they may redeem themselves.

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Leviticus 25:50

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They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.

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Leviticus 25:51

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If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them.

Leviticus 25:52

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If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.

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Leviticus 25:53

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They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.

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Leviticus 25:54

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"‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,

Leviticus 25:55

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for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

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Leviticus 26:1

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Reward for Obedience

"‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.

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Leviticus 26:2

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"‘Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord .

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Leviticus 26:3

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"‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,

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Leviticus 26:4

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I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.

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Leviticus 26:5

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Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.

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Leviticus 26:6

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"‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country.

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Leviticus 26:7

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You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.

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Leviticus 26:8

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Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

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Leviticus 26:9

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"‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.

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Leviticus 26:10

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You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.

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Leviticus 26:11

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I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.

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Leviticus 26:12

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I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

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Leviticus 26:13

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I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

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Leviticus 26:14

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"‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,

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Leviticus 26:15

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and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,

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Leviticus 26:16

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then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

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Leviticus 26:17

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I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.

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Leviticus 26:18

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"‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.

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Leviticus 26:19

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I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.

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Leviticus 26:20

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Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.

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Leviticus 26:21

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"‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.

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Leviticus 26:22

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I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.

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Leviticus 26:23

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"‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,

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Leviticus 26:24

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I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.

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Leviticus 26:25

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And I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands.

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Leviticus 26:26

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When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

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Leviticus 26:27

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"‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me,

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Leviticus 26:28

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then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.

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Leviticus 26:29

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You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

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Leviticus 26:30

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I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.

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Leviticus 26:31

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I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

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Leviticus 26:32

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I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.

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Leviticus 26:33

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I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.

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Leviticus 26:34

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Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

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Leviticus 26:35

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All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

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Leviticus 26:36

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"‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.

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Leviticus 26:37

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They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.

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Leviticus 26:38

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You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.

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Leviticus 26:39

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Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors' sins they will waste away.

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Leviticus 26:40

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"‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me,

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Leviticus 26:41

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which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin,

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Leviticus 26:42

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I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

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Leviticus 26:43

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For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees.

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Leviticus 26:44

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Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the Lord their God.

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Leviticus 26:45

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But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord .'"

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Leviticus 26:46

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These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

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Leviticus 27:1

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Redeeming What Is the Lord 's

The Lord said to Moses,

Leviticus 27:2

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"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate a person to the Lord by giving the equivalent value,

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Leviticus 27:3

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set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel;

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Leviticus 27:4

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for a female, set her value at thirty shekels;

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Leviticus 27:5

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for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels and of a female at ten shekels;

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Leviticus 27:6

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for a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels of silver and that of a female at three shekels of silver;

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Leviticus 27:7

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for a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels and of a female at ten shekels.

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Leviticus 27:8

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If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay the specified amount, the person being dedicated is to be presented to the priest, who will set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.

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Leviticus 27:9

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"‘If what they vowed is an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the Lord , such an animal given to the Lord becomes holy.

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Leviticus 27:10

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They must not exchange it or substitute a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good one; if they should substitute one animal for another, both it and the substitute become holy.

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Leviticus 27:11

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If what they vowed is a ceremonially unclean animal—one that is not acceptable as an offering to the Lord —the animal must be presented to the priest,

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Leviticus 27:12

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who will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, that is what it will be.

Leviticus 27:13

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If the owner wishes to redeem the animal, a fifth must be added to its value.

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Leviticus 27:14

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"‘If anyone dedicates their house as something holy to the Lord , the priest will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, so it will remain.

Leviticus 27:15

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If the one who dedicates their house wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the house will again become theirs.

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Leviticus 27:16

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"‘If anyone dedicates to the Lord part of their family land, its value is to be set according to the amount of seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver to a homer of barley seed.

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Leviticus 27:17

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If they dedicate a field during the Year of Jubilee, the value that has been set remains.

Leviticus 27:18

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But if they dedicate a field after the Jubilee, the priest will determine the value according to the number of years that remain until the next Year of Jubilee, and its set value will be reduced.

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Leviticus 27:19

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If the one who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the field will again become theirs.

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Leviticus 27:20

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If, however, they do not redeem the field, or if they have sold it to someone else, it can never be redeemed.

Leviticus 27:21

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When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the Lord ; it will become priestly property.

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Leviticus 27:22

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"‘If anyone dedicates to the Lord a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land,

Leviticus 27:23

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the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the owner must pay its value on that day as something holy to the Lord .

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Leviticus 27:24

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In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.

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Leviticus 27:25

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Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

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Leviticus 27:26

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"‘No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the Lord ; whether an ox or a sheep, it is the Lord 's.

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Leviticus 27:27

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If it is one of the unclean animals, it may be bought back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If it is not redeemed, it is to be sold at its set value.

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Leviticus 27:28

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"‘But nothing that a person owns and devotes to the Lord —whether a human being or an animal or family land—may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the Lord .

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Leviticus 27:29

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"‘No person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; they are to be put to death.

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Leviticus 27:30

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"‘A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord ; it is holy to the Lord .

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Leviticus 27:31

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Whoever would redeem any of their tithe must add a fifth of the value to it.

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Leviticus 27:32

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Every tithe of the herd and flock—every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's rod—will be holy to the Lord .

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Leviticus 27:33

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No one may pick out the good from the bad or make any substitution. If anyone does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute become holy and cannot be redeemed.'"

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Leviticus 27:34

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These are the commands the Lord gave Moses at Mount Sinai for the Israelites.

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