You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

The owner must not examine the animals to distinguish between good and bad, and he must not exchange it. If, however, he does exchange it, both the original animal and its substitute will be holy. It must not be redeemed.’”

In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.

but the flesh and the hide he completely burned up outside the camp.

“‘Surely no man may consecrate a firstborn that already belongs to the Lord as a firstborn among the animals; whether it is an ox or a sheep, it belongs to the Lord.

He must bring his guilt offering to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, a guilt offering ram,

“‘If his offering is a votive or freewill sacrifice, it may be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and also the leftovers from it may be eaten on the next day,

If, as far as the priest can see, the scall has stayed the same and black hair has sprouted in it, the scall has been healed; the person is clean. So the priest is to pronounce him clean.

A clay vessel which the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed in water.

He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you – you may eat its produce from the field.

If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption,

But if there is a reddish white infection in the back or front bald area, it is a disease breaking out in his back or front bald area.

“If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, scraped the house, and it is replastered,

and he is to send the live bird away outside the city into the open countryside. So he is to make atonement for the house and it will be clean.

“‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,

but if a priest buys a person with his own money, that person may eat the holy offerings, and those born in the priest’s own house may eat his food.

“‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you – you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.

He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

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.