Leviticus:25-27
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And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai ,
saying ,
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Speak unto the children of Israel ,
and say unto them ,
When ye come into the land which I give you ,
then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD .
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Six years thou shalt sow thy field ,
and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard ,
and gather in the fruit thereof ;
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But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land ,
a sabbath for the LORD :
thou shalt neither sow thy field ,
nor prune thy vineyard .
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That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap ,
neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed :
for it is a year of rest unto the land .
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And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you ;
for thee ,
and for thy servant ,
and for thy maid ,
and for thy hired servant ,
and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee ,
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And for thy cattle ,
and for the beast that are in thy land ,
shall all the increase thereof be meat .
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And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee ,
seven times seven years ;
and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years .
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Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month ,
in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land .
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And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year ,
and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof :
it shall be a jubile unto you ;
and ye shall return every man unto his possession ,
and ye shall return every man unto his family .
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A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you :
ye shall not sow ,
neither reap that which groweth of itself in it ,
nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed .
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For it is the jubile ;
it shall be holy unto you :
ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field .
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In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession .
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And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour ,
or buyest ought of thy neighbour '
s hand ,
ye shall not oppress one another :
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According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour ,
and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee :
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According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof ,
and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it :
for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee .
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Ye shall not therefore oppress one another ;
but thou shalt fear thy God :
for I am the LORD your God .
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Wherefore ye shall do my statutes ,
and keep my judgments ,
and do them ;
and ye shall dwell in the land in safety .
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And the land shall yield her fruit ,
and ye shall eat your fill ,
and dwell therein in safety .
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And if ye shall say ,
What shall we eat the seventh year ?
behold ,
we shall not sow ,
nor gather in our increase :
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Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year ,
and it shall bring forth fruit for three years .
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And ye shall sow the eighth year ,
and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year ;
until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store .
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The land shall not be sold for ever :
for the land is mine ;
for ye are strangers and sojourners with me .
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And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land .
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If thy brother be waxen poor ,
and hath sold away some of his possession ,
and if any of his kin come to redeem it ,
then shall he redeem that which his brother sold .
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And if the man have none to redeem it ,
and himself be able to redeem it ;
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Then let him count the years of the sale thereof ,
and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it ;
that he may return unto his possession .
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But if he be not able to restore it to him ,
then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile :
and in the jubile it shall go out ,
and he shall return unto his possession .
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And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city ,
then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold ;
within a full year may he redeem it .
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And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year ,
then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations :
it shall not go out in the jubile .
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But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country :
they may be redeemed ,
and they shall go out in the jubile .
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Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites ,
and the houses of the cities of their possession ,
may the Levites redeem at any time .
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And if a man purchase of the Levites ,
then the house that was sold ,
and the city of his possession ,
shall go out in the year of jubile :
for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel .
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But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold ;
for it is their perpetual possession .
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And if thy brother be waxen poor ,
and fallen in decay with thee ;
then thou shalt relieve him :
yea ,
though he be a stranger ,
or a sojourner ;
that he may live with thee .
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Take thou no usury of him ,
or increase :
but fear thy God ;
that thy brother may live with thee .
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Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury ,
nor lend him thy victuals for increase .
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I am the LORD your God ,
which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt ,
to give you the land of Canaan ,
and to be your God .
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And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor ,
and be sold unto thee ;
thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant :
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But as an hired servant ,
and as a sojourner ,
he shall be with thee ,
and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile :
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And then shall he depart from thee ,
both he and his children with him ,
and shall return unto his own family ,
and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return .
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For they are my servants ,
which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt :
they shall not be sold as bondmen .
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Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour ;
but shalt fear thy God .
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Both thy bondmen ,
and thy bondmaids ,
which thou shalt have ,
shall be of the heathen that are round about you ;
of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids .
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Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you ,
of them shall ye buy ,
and of their families that are with you ,
which they begat in your land :
and they shall be your possession .
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And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you ,
to inherit them for a possession ;
they shall be your bondmen for ever :
but over your brethren the children of Israel ,
ye shall not rule one over another with rigour .
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And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee ,
and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor ,
and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee ,
or to the stock of the stranger '
s family :
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After that he is sold he may be redeemed again ;
one of his brethren may redeem him :
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Either his uncle ,
or his uncle '
s son ,
may redeem him ,
or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him ;
or if he be able ,
he may redeem himself .
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And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile :
and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years ,
according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him .
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If there be yet many years behind ,
according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for .
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And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile ,
then he shall count with him ,
and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption .
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And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him :
and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight .
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And if he be not redeemed in these years ,
then he shall go out in the year of jubile ,
both he ,
and his children with him .
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For unto me the children of Israel are servants ;
they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt :
I am the LORD your God .
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Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image ,
neither rear you up a standing image ,
neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land ,
to bow down unto it :
for I am the LORD your God .
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Ye shall keep my sabbaths ,
and reverence my sanctuary :
I am the LORD .
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If ye walk in my statutes ,
and keep my commandments ,
and do them ;
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Then I will give you rain in due season ,
and the land shall yield her increase ,
and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit .
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And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage ,
and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time :
and ye shall eat your bread to the full ,
and dwell in your land safely .
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And I will give peace in the land ,
and ye shall lie down ,
and none shall make you afraid :
and I will rid evil beasts out of the land ,
neither shall the sword go through your land .
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And ye shall chase your enemies ,
and they shall fall before you by the sword .
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And five of you shall chase an hundred ,
and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight :
and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword .
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For I will have respect unto you ,
and make you fruitful ,
and multiply you ,
and establish my covenant with you .
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And ye shall eat old store ,
and bring forth the old because of the new .
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And I will set my tabernacle among you :
and my soul shall not abhor you .
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And I will walk among you ,
and will be your God ,
and ye shall be my people .
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I am the LORD your God ,
which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt ,
that ye should not be their bondmen ;
and I have broken the bands of your yoke ,
and made you go upright .
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But if ye will not hearken unto me ,
and will not do all these commandments ;
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And if ye shall despise my statutes ,
or if your soul abhor my judgments ,
so that ye will not do all my commandments ,
but that ye break my covenant :
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I also will do this unto you ;
I will even appoint over you terror ,
consumption ,
and the burning ague ,
that shall consume the eyes ,
and cause sorrow of heart :
and ye shall sow your seed in vain ,
for your enemies shall eat it .
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And I will set my face against you ,
and ye shall be slain before your enemies :
they that hate you shall reign over you ;
and ye shall flee when none pursueth you .
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And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me ,
then I will punish you seven times more for your sins .
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And I will break the pride of your power ;
and I will make your heaven as iron ,
and your earth as brass :
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And your strength shall be spent in vain :
for your land shall not yield her increase ,
neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits .
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And if ye walk contrary unto me ,
and will not hearken unto me ;
I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins .
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I will also send wild beasts among you ,
which shall rob you of your children ,
and destroy your cattle ,
and make you few in number ;
and your high ways shall be desolate .
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And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things ,
but will walk contrary unto me ;
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Then will I also walk contrary unto you ,
and will punish you yet seven times for your sins .
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And I will bring a sword upon you ,
that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant :
and when ye are gathered together within your cities ,
I will send the pestilence among you ;
and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy .
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And when I have broken the staff of your bread ,
ten women shall bake your bread in one oven ,
and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight :
and ye shall eat ,
and not be satisfied .
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And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me ,
but walk contrary unto me ;
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Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury ;
and I ,
even I ,
will chastise you seven times for your sins .
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And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons ,
and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat .
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And I will destroy your high places ,
and cut down your images ,
and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols ,
and my soul shall abhor you .
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And I will make your cities waste ,
and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation ,
and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours .
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And I will bring the land into desolation :
and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it .
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And I will scatter you among the heathen ,
and will draw out a sword after you :
and your land shall be desolate ,
and your cities waste .
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Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths ,
as long as it lieth desolate ,
and ye be in your enemies '
land ;
even then shall the land rest ,
and enjoy her sabbaths .
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As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest ;
because it did not rest in your sabbaths ,
when ye dwelt upon it .
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And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies ;
and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them ;
and they shall flee ,
as fleeing from a sword ;
and they shall fall when none pursueth .
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And they shall fall one upon another ,
as it were before a sword ,
when none pursueth :
and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies .
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And ye shall perish among the heathen ,
and the land of your enemies shall eat you up .
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And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies '
lands ;
and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them .
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If they shall confess their iniquity ,
and the iniquity of their fathers ,
with their trespass which they trespassed against me ,
and that also they have walked contrary unto me ;
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And that I also have walked contrary unto them ,
and have brought them into the land of their enemies ;
if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled ,
and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity :
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Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob ,
and also my covenant with Isaac ,
and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember ;
and I will remember the land .
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The land also shall be left of them ,
and shall enjoy her sabbaths ,
while she lieth desolate without them :
and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity :
because ,
even because they despised my judgments ,
and because their soul abhorred my statutes .
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And yet for all that ,
when they be in the land of their enemies ,
I will not cast them away ,
neither will I abhor them ,
to destroy them utterly ,
and to break my covenant with them :
for I am the LORD their God .
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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 heathen ,
that I might be their God :
I am the LORD .
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These are the statutes and judgments and laws ,
which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Speak unto the children of Israel ,
and say unto them ,
When a man shall make a singular vow ,
the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation .
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And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old ,
even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver ,
after the shekel of the sanctuary .
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And if it be a female ,
then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels .
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And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old ,
then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels ,
and for the female ten shekels .
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And if it be from a month old even unto five years old ,
then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver ,
and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver .
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And if it be from sixty years old and above ;
if it be a male ,
then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels ,
and for the female ten shekels .
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But if he be poorer than thy estimation ,
then he shall present himself before the priest ,
and the priest shall value him ;
according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him .
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And if it be a beast ,
whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD ,
all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy .
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He shall not alter it ,
nor change it ,
a good for a bad ,
or a bad for a good :
and if he shall at all change beast for beast ,
then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy .
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And if it be any unclean beast ,
of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD ,
then he shall present the beast before the priest :
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And the priest shall value it ,
whether it be good or bad :
as thou valuest it ,
who art the priest ,
so shall it be .
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But if he will at all redeem it ,
then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation .
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And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD ,
then the priest shall estimate it ,
whether it be good or bad :
as the priest shall estimate it ,
so shall it stand .
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And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house ,
then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it ,
and it shall be his .
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And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession ,
then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof :
an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver .
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If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile ,
according to thy estimation it shall stand .
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But if he sanctify his field after the jubile ,
then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain ,
even unto the year of the jubile ,
and it shall be abated from thy estimation .
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And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it ,
then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it ,
and it shall be assured to him .
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And if he will not redeem the field ,
or if he have sold the field to another man ,
it shall not be redeemed any more .
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But the field ,
when it goeth out in the jubile ,
shall be holy unto the LORD ,
as a field devoted ;
the possession thereof shall be the priest '
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And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought ,
which is not of the fields of his possession ;
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Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation ,
even unto the year of the jubile :
and he shall give thine estimation in that day ,
as a holy thing unto the LORD .
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In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought ,
even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong .
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And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary :
twenty gerahs shall be the shekel .
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Only the firstling of the beasts ,
which should be the LORD '
S firstling ,
no man shall sanctify it ;
whether it be ox ,
or sheep :
it is the LORD '
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And if it be of an unclean beast ,
then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation ,
and shall add a fifth part of it thereto :
or if it be not redeemed ,
then it shall be sold according to thy estimation .
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Notwithstanding no devoted thing ,
that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath ,
both of man and beast ,
and of the field of his possession ,
shall be sold or redeemed :
every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD .
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None devoted ,
which shall be devoted of men ,
shall be redeemed ;
but shall surely be put to death .
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And all the tithe of the land ,
whether of the seed of the land ,
or of the fruit of the tree ,
is the LORD '
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it is holy unto the LORD .
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And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes ,
he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof .
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And concerning the tithe of the herd ,
or of the flock ,
even of whatsoever passeth under the rod ,
the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD .
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He shall not search whether it be good or bad ,
neither shall he change it :
and if he change it at all ,
then both it and the change thereof shall be holy ;
it shall not be redeemed .
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These are the commandments ,
which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai .