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.

then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

Like a hired servant, he is to remain with him year after year, but he is not to rule over him with what you see as severity.

"I'll look after you, ensuring that you'll be fruitful. I'll increase your number and keep my covenant with you.

And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.

If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

"If, after all of this time, you don't listen to me, but instead live life contrary to me,

You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

If your valuation is of the male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

And if he that consecrated it wishes to redeem his house, he is to add one fifth to your valuation, after which it is to belong to him.

If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for him proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your valuation.

Every valuation of yours, moreover, shall be after the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.