Leviticus 25:46   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

Leviticus 25:47   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner's clan,

Leviticus 25:48   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them:

Leviticus 25:50   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.

Leviticus 25:51   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them.

Leviticus 25:53   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.

Leviticus 25:54   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,

Leviticus 25:55   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:1   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

" 'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:2   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

" 'Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 26:4   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.

Leviticus 26:5   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.

Leviticus 26:6   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

" 'I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country.

Leviticus 26:7   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

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

Leviticus 26:8   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

Leviticus 26:10   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.

Leviticus 26:13   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

Leviticus 26:15   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,

Leviticus 26:16   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

Leviticus 26:17   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.

Leviticus 26:18   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

" 'If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.

Leviticus 26:19   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.

Leviticus 26:20   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.

Leviticus 26:21   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

" 'If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.