“If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain.

And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’

“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,

Punishment for Disobedience

“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,

if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.