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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Yesterday we heard about the feasts that the Israelites are called to keep and how they

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are to keep them and the sacrifices that they are to make on those feasts.

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And today we're going to hear about the seventh year or the year of the Sabbath as well as

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the fiftieth year or the year of the Jubilee and how these years are to be kept and exactly

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what the children of Israel are called to do on those years.

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Alright let's begin.

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To these reading is from Leviticus chapters 25 to 27.

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Chapter 25

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And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and

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say to them, When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath

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to the LORD.

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Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather

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its fruits.

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But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to

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the LORD.

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And you shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

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What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes

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of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.

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And the Sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you, for you your male and female

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servants, your hired man, and a stranger who dwells with you, for your livestock and the

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beasts there are in your land.

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All its produce shall be for food.

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And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years.

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And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.

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Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month.

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On the day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.

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And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land

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to all its inhabitants.

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It shall be a Jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his possession, and each

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of you shall return to his family.

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That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you.

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In it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes

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of your untended vine.

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For it is the Jubilee, it shall be holy to you, you shall eat its produce from the field.

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In this year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his possession, and if you sell

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anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another.

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According to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor,

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and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you.

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According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer

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number of years you shall diminish its price, for he sells to you according to the number

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of the years of the crops.

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Therefore, you shall not oppress one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the

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LORD your God.

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So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments and perform them, and you will

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dwell in the land in safety.

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

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And if you say, What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gather in

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our produce?

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Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce

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enough for three years.

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And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat all produce until the ninth year, until

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its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.

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The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine.

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For you are strangers and sojourners with Me, and in all the land of your possession

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you shall grant redemption of the land.

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If one of your brethren becomes poor and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming

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relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold.

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Or if a man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, then let

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him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it,

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that he may return to his possession.

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But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain

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in the hand of him who bought it until the year of Jubilee, and in the Jubilee it shall

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be released, and he shall return to his possession.

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If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after

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it is sold, within a full year he may redeem it, but if it is not redeemed within the space

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of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to him who bought

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it, throughout his generations, it shall not be released in the Jubilee.

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However, the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the

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fields of the country, they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

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Nevertheless, the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession,

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the Levites may redeem at any time.

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And if a man purchases a house from the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of

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his possession shall be released in the Jubilee, for the houses in the cities of the Levites

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are their possession among the children of Israel.

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

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possession.

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If one of your brethren becomes poor and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help

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him like a stranger or a sojourner that he may live with you.

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

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You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit.

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

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of Canaan, and to be your God.

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And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor and sells himself to you,

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you shall not compel him to serve as a slave.

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As a hired servant and a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the

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year of Jubilee.

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And then he shall depart from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to

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his own family.

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He shall return to the possession of his fathers.

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For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.

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They shall not be sold as slaves.

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

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And as for your male and female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around

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you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

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Moreover, you may buy the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families

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who are with you, which they beget in your land, and they shall become your property.

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And you may take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as

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a possession.

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They shall be your permanent slaves.

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But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another

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with rigor.

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Now if a sojourner or stranger close to you becomes rich, and one of your brethren who

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dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner close to you,

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or to a member of the stranger's family, after he is sold he may be redeemed again.

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One of his brothers may redeem him, or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or

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anyone who is near of kin to him and his family may redeem him, or if he is able he may redeem

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himself.

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Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him.

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The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that

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he was sold to him until the year of Jubilee.

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It shall be according to the time of a hired servant for him.

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If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall repay the price of his redemption

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from the money with which he was bought.

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And if there remain but a few years until the year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon

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with him and according to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption.

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He shall be with him as a yearly hired servant, and he shall not rule with rigor over him

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in your sight.

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And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the year of Jubilee,

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he and his children with him.

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For the children of Israel are servants to me.

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They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.

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I am the Lord your God.

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Chapter 26 You shall not make idols for yourselves.

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Neither a carved image, nor a sacred pillar, shall you rear up for yourselves, nor shall

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you set up an engraved stone in your land to bow down to it.

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For I am the Lord your God.

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You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary.

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I am the Lord.

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If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and perform them, then I will give you rain

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in its season.

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The land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

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Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the

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time of sowing.

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You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

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I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid.

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I will rid the land of evil beasts, and the sword will not go through your land.

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

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Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight.

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Your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.

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For I will look on you favorably, and make you fruitful, multiply you, and confirm my

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covenant with you.

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You shall eat the old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.

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I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.

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

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I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not

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be their slaves.

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I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

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But if you do not obey me, and do not observe all these commandments, and if you despise

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my statutes, or if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you do not perform all my commandments,

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but break my covenant, I will also do this to you.

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I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever, which shall consume the

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eyes and cause sorrow of heart.

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And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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I will set my face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies.

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Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.

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And after all this, if you do not obey me, then I will punish you seven times more for

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your sins.

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I will break the pride of your power.

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I will make your heavens like iron, and your earth like bronze.

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And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its produce,

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nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

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Even if you walk contrary to me, and are not willing to obey me, I will bring on you seven

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times more plagues according to your sins.

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I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your

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livestock and make you few in number, and your highways shall be desolate.

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And if by these things you are not reformed by me, but walk contrary to me, then I will

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also walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

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And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant.

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When you are gathered together within your cities, I will send pestilence among you,

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and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

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When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven,

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and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

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And after all this, if you do not obey me, but walk contrary to me, then I also will

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walk contrary to you in fury, and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your

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sins.

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You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

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I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses

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on the lifeless forms of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

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I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not

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smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas.

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I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished

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at it.

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I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you.

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Your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

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Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your

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enemy's land.

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Then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

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As long as it lies desolate it shall rest.

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For the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

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And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands

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of their enemies.

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The sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee.

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They shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

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They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues.

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And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

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You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

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And those of you who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemy's lands.

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Also in their father's iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.

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But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness,

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in which they were unfaithful to me, and that they also have walked contrary to me, and

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that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their

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enemies, if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they accept their guilt, then

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I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with

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Abraham, I will remember.

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I will remember the land.

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The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths, while it lies

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desolate without them.

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They will accept their guilt, because they despise my judgments, and because their soul

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abhors my statutes.

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Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away,

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nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break my covenant with them, for

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I am the Lord their God.

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But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of

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the land of Egypt, in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God.

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I am the Lord.

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These are the statutes and judgments, and laws which the Lord made between himself and

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the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

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Chapter 27

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Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them,

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When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to the Lord according to your valuation, if

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your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation

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shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

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If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.

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And if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation for a male shall

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be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

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And if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall be five

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shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

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And from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen

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shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

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But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest,

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and the priest shall set a value for him according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest

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shall value him.

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If it is an animal that men may bring as an offering to the Lord, all that anyone gives

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to the Lord shall be holy.

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He shall not substitute it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good.

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And if he at all exchanges animal for animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it

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shall be holy.

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If it is an unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the Lord, then he

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shall present the animal before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for it,

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whether it is good or bad.

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As you the priest value it, so it shall be.

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

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And when a man dedicates his house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall set a value

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for it, whether it is good or bad, as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

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If he who dedicated it wants to redeem his house, then he must add one fifth of the money

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of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.

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If a man dedicates to the Lord part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall

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be according to the seed for it.

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A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

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If he dedicates his field from the year of Jubilee according to your valuation, it shall

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stand.

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But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money

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due according to the years that remain till the year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted

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from your valuation.

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And if he who dedicates the field ever wishes to redeem it, then he must add one fifth of

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the money of your valuation to it, and it shall belong to him.

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But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man,

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it shall not be redeemed any more.

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But the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord as a devoted

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field.

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It shall be the possession of the priest.

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And if a man dedicates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not the field

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of his possession, then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the

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year of Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy offering to the Lord.

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In the year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one

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who owned the land as a possession.

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And all your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary, twenty geras

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to the shekel.

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But the firstborn of the animals, which should be the Lord's firstborn, no man shall dedicate.

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Whether it is an ox or sheep, it is the Lord's.

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And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation, and

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shall add one fifth to it.

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Or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

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Nevertheless, no devoted offering that a man may devote to the Lord of all that he has,

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both man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed.

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Every devoted offering is most holy to the Lord.

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No person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be redeemed,

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which 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

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tree, is the Lord's.

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It is holy to the Lord.

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If a man wants at all to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add one fifth to it.

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And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock of whatever passes under the rod, the

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tenth one shall be holy to the Lord.

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He shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, nor shall exchange it.

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And if he exchanges it at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy.

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It shall not be redeemed.

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These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel

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on Mount Sinai.

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And with that we have concluded the third book of the Old Testament, the Book of Leviticus.

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And we're only getting started.

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I'm very excited that we're on this journey together and I'm proud of you.

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You're doing great.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.