he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.
You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.
“If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger's clan,
or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.
He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker.
If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.
He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight.
“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.
Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.
They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons,
then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels.
If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
He shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy.
But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.
“When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.
“If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.
And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his.
But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.
If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession,
then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord.
In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.
Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.
“But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord's.
And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.
“But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.
One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”
“Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.
And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.
“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not list, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel.
“List the sons of Levi, by fathers' houses and by clans; every male from a month old and upward you shall list.”
Their listing according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 7,500.
According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, keeping guard over the sanctuary.
Their listing according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 6,200.
All those listed among the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron listed at the commandment of the Lord, by clans, all the males from a month old and upward, were 22,000.
And the Lord said to Moses, “List all the firstborn males of the people of Israel, from a month old and upward, taking the number of their names.
And all the firstborn males, according to the number of names, from a month old and upward as listed were 22,273.
“Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their clans and their fathers' houses,
Then they shall put on it a covering of goatskin and spread on top of that a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.
And over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a cloth of blue and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and the flagons for the drink offering; the regular showbread also shall be on it.
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