Leviticus 25:40   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:43   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.

Leviticus 25:44   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

Leviticus 25:45   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.

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 25:53   (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 25:55   (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 26:3   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

" 'If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,

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 26:9   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

" 'I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with 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 26:11   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.

Leviticus 26:12   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

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 26:14   (Read all of Leviticus 26)

" 'But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,

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.