the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord.”

You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,

You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them so that you may live securely in the land.

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

I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

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

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.

“‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ iniquities which are with them.

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.

You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.

“‘If an ordinary individual sins by straying unintentionally when he violates one of the Lord’s commandments which must not be violated, and he pleads guilty

“Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.

for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy.

This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land,

The goat is to bear on itself all their iniquities into an inaccessible land, so he is to send the goat away in the wilderness.

“‘When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest.

The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

If, however, the people of the land shut their eyes to that man when he gives some of his children to Molech so that they do not put him to death,