⁷ And the Lord said: ^(A)“I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry ^(B)because of their taskmasters, ^(C)for I know their ^[a]sorrows.

³⁷ Jesus said to him, ^(A)“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ^(B)‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ^40 (C)On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

^21 (A)“You shall neither mistreat a ^[a]stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

^22 (B)“You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. ²³ If you afflict them in any way, and they ^(C)cry at all to Me, I will surely ^(D)hear their cry;

Tithing Principles

^22 (A)“You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year. ^23 (B)And you shall eat before the Lord your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of ^(C)the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. ²⁴ But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or ^(D)if the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the Lord your God has blessed you, ²⁵ then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses. ²⁶ And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall ^(E)rejoice, you and your household. ²⁷ You shall not ^[a]forsake the ^(F)Levite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

^28 (G)“At the end of every third year you shall bring out the ^(H)tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates. ²⁹ And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Offerings of Firstfruits and Tithes

26 “And it shall be, when you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it, ^2 (A)that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and ^(B)go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. ³ And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord ^[a]your God that I have come to the country which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’

⁴ “Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God. ⁵ And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God: ‘My father was ^(C)a ^[b]Syrian, ^(D)about to perish, and ^(E)he went down to Egypt and ^[c]dwelt there, ^(F)few in number; and there he became a nation, ^(G)great, mighty, and populous. ⁶ But the ^(H)Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us. ^7 (I)Then we cried out to the Lord God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression. ⁸ So ^(J)the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, ^(K)with great terror and with signs and wonders. ⁹ He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, ^(L)“a land flowing with milk and honey”; ¹⁰ and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O Lord, have given me.’

“Then you shall set it before the Lord your God, and worship before the Lord your God. ¹¹ So ^(M)you shall rejoice in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you.

⁹ Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; ^(A)on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. ¹⁰ And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and ^(B)proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; ^(C)and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. ¹¹ That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it ^(D)you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. ¹² For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; ^(E)you shall eat its produce from the field.

^13 (F)‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession. ¹⁴ And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not ^(G)oppress one another. ^15 (H)According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you. ¹⁶ According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops. ¹⁷ Therefore ^(I)you shall not ^[a]oppress one another, ^(J)but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

Provisions for the Seventh Year

^18 (K)‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; ^(L)and you will dwell in the land in safety. ¹⁹ Then the land will yield its fruit, and ^(M)you will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety.

²⁰ ‘And if you say, ^(N)“What shall we eat in the seventh year, since ^(O)we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?” ²¹ Then I will ^(P)command My blessing on you in the ^(Q)sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years. ^22 (R)And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat ^(S)old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.

Redemption of Property

²³ ‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for ^(T)the land is Mine; for you are ^(U)strangers and sojourners with Me.