'But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. 'And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. i will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit. 'Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins. I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate. 'And if by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me, then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins. And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied. 'And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me, the I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you. I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas. I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it. I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate it shall rest - for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it. '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 shaken leaf shall cause them to flee; they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues. They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. And those of you who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; also in their fathers' iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away. 'But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt - then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land. The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes. Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.'" These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the LORD made between Himself and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to the LORD, according to your valuation, if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 'If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels; 'and if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels; 'and if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver; 'and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 'But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then the shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him. 'If it is an animal that men may ring as an offering to the LORD, all that anyone gives to the LORD shall be holy. 'He shall not substitute it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he at all exchanges animal for animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy. 'If it is an unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the LORD, then he shall present the animal before the priest; 'and the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be. 'But if he wants at all to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth to your valuation. 'And when a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 'If he who dedicated it wants to redeem his house, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his. 'If a man dedicates to the LORD part of a filed of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A home of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 'If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. 'But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain til the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation. 'And if he who dedicates the filed ever wishes to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall belong to him. 'But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore; 'but the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a devoted field; it shall be the possession of the priest.
Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to the LORD, according to your valuation, if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 'If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels; 'and if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels; 'and if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver; 'and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 'But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then the shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him. 'If it is an animal that men may ring as an offering to the LORD, all that anyone gives to the LORD shall be holy. 'He shall not substitute it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he at all exchanges animal for animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy. 'If it is an unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the LORD, then he shall present the animal before the priest; 'and the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be. 'But if he wants at all to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth to your valuation. 'And when a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 'If he who dedicated it wants to redeem his house, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his. 'If a man dedicates to the LORD part of a filed of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A home of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 'If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. 'But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain til the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation. 'And if he who dedicates the filed ever wishes to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall belong to him. 'But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore; 'but the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a devoted field; it shall be the possession of the priest.
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