Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments –

“‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.

I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

and the priest will establish its conversion value, whether good or bad. According to the assessed conversion value of the priest, thus it will be.

If the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he must add to it one fifth of its conversion value in silver, and it will belong to him.

“‘If he consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased, which is not part of his own landed property,

In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.

These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses to tell the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,

The Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses – that is what they did.

But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.

You are to assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively to him out of all the Israelites.

And for the redemption of the 273 firstborn males of the Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites,

“Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

“Also take a census of the Gershonites, by their clans and by their families.