You are to count 50 days until the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.

Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quarts of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits to the Lord.

You are to present with the bread seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

You are also to prepare one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a fellowship sacrifice.

The priest will wave the lambs with the bread of firstfruits as a presentation offering before the Lord; the bread and the two lambs will be holy to the Lord for the priest.

On that same day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any daily work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live throughout your generations.

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; I am Yahweh your God.”

“Tell the Israelites: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration, and joyful shouting—a sacred assembly.

You must not do any daily work, but you must present a fire offering to the Lord.”

“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a sacred assembly and practice self-denial; you are to present a fire offering to the Lord.

On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the Lord your God.

I will destroy among his people anyone who does any work on this same day.

You are not to do any work. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.

It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial. You are to observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening.”

There is to be a sacred assembly on the first day; you are not to do any daily work.

You are to present a fire offering to the Lord for seven days. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a fire offering to the Lord. It is a solemn gathering; you are not to do any daily work.

“These are the Lord’s appointed times that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting fire offerings to the Lord, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day.

These are in addition to the offerings for the Lord’s Sabbaths, your gifts, all your vow offerings, and all your freewill offerings that you give to the Lord.

“You are to celebrate the Lord’s festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month for seven days after you have gathered the produce of the land. There will be complete rest on the first day and complete rest on the eighth day.

On the first day you are to take the product of majestic trees—palm fronds, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook—and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

You are to celebrate it as a festival to the Lord seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for you throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month.

You are to live in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must live in booths,

so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.”

“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning continually.

Aaron is to tend it continually from evening until morning before the Lord outside the veil of the testimony in the tent of meeting. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord.

Place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread and a fire offering to the Lord.

The bread is to be set out before the Lord every Sabbath day as a perpetual covenant obligation on the part of the Israelites.

It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, for it is the holiest portion for him from the fire offerings to the Lord; this is a permanent rule.”

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father was among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man.

Her son cursed and blasphemed the Name, and they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, a daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.)

“Bring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him.

“If a man kills anyone, he must be put to death.

If any man inflicts a permanent injury on his neighbor, whatever he has done is to be done to him:

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he inflicted on the person, the same is to be inflicted on him.

Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, but whoever kills a person is to be put to death.

You are to have the same law for the foreign resident and the native, because I am Yahweh your God.”

After Moses spoke to the Israelites, they brought the one who had cursed to the outside of the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you, the land will observe a Sabbath to the Lord.

You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.

But there will be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land in the seventh year, a Sabbath to the Lord: you are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It must be a year of complete rest for the land.

Whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year can be food for you—for yourself, your male or female slave, and the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you.

“You are to count seven sabbatical years, seven times seven years, so that the time period of the seven sabbatical years amounts to 49.

Then you are to sound a trumpet loudly in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month; you will sound it throughout your land on the Day of Atonement.

You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.

The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you are not to sow, reap what grows by itself, or harvest its untended vines.

It is to be holy to you because it is the Jubilee; you may only eat its produce directly from the field.

“In this Year of Jubilee, each of you will return to his property.

If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheat one another.

You are to make the purchase from your neighbor based on the number of years since the last Jubilee. He is to sell to you based on the number of remaining harvest years.

You are to increase its price in proportion to a greater amount of years, and decrease its price in proportion to a lesser amount of years, because what he is selling to you is a number of harvests.

You are not to cheat one another, but fear your God, for I am Yahweh your God.

“You are to keep My statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.

Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat, be satisfied, and live securely in the land.

If you wonder: ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce?’

I will appoint My blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.

When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.

“The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land.

You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy.

If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land,

“If a man sells a residence in a walled city, his right of redemption will last until a year has passed after its sale; his right of redemption will last a year.

If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its purchaser throughout his generations. It is not to be released on the Jubilee.

Whatever property one of the Levites can redeem—a house sold in a city they possess—must be released at the Jubilee, because the houses in the Levitical cities are their possession among the Israelites.

“If your brother becomes destitute and cannot sustain himself among you, you are to support him as a foreigner or temporary resident, so that he can continue to live among you.

Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.

You are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.

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

“If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, you must not force him to do slave labor.

Let him stay with you as a hired hand or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

Then he and his children are to be released from you, and he may return to his clan and his ancestral property.

They are not to be sold as slaves, because they are My slaves that I brought out of the land of Egypt.

You are not to rule over them harshly but fear your God.

Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.

You may also purchase them from the foreigners staying with you, or from their families living among you—those born in your land. These may become your property.

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.

“If a foreigner or temporary resident living among you prospers, but your brother living near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner living among you, or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,

The one who purchased him is to calculate the time from the year he sold himself to him until the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years. It will be set for him like the daily wages of a hired hand.

If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he will calculate and pay the price of his redemption in proportion to his remaining years.

He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A foreign owner is not to rule over him harshly in your sight.

For the Israelites are My slaves. They are My slaves that I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.

“Do not make idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am Yahweh your God.

You must keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

“If you follow My statutes and faithfully observe My commands,

I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.

I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

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

Five of you will pursue 100, and 100 of you will pursue 10,000; your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

“I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm My covenant with you.

You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new.

I will place My residence among you, and I will not reject you.

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

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom.

“But if you do not obey Me and observe all these commands—

if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and break My covenant,

then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you—wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.

“But if after these things you will not obey Me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins.

I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,