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Leviticus

But if you cannot afford a sheep, you shall bring to the Lord, as your penalty for the sin that you have committed, two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

(Levitics 5:7)

If she cannot afford a sheep, she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement on her behalf, and she shall be clean.

(Leviticus 12:8)

But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be elevated, to make atonement on his behalf, and one-tenth of an ephah of choice flour mixed with oil for a grain offering and a log of oil; also two turtledoves or two pigeons, such as he can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

(Leviticus 14:21-22)

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the migrant. I am YHWH your God.

(Leviticus 19:9-10)

You shall not oppress your neighbour or rob them. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

(Leviticus 19:13)

You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor

(Leviticus 19:15)

Don’t hate your comrade in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt. Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am YHWH.

(Leviticus 19:17-18)

When a foreigner lives with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the foreigner who lives with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt: I am YHWH your God.

(Leviticus 19:33-34)

When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the alien: I am YHWH your God.

(Leviticus 23:22)

You shall have the same law for the migrant as for the home-born citizen, for I am YHWH your God.

(Leviticus 24:22)

Speak to the people and tell to them: “When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must have a sabbath for YHWH. For six years you may sow your fields and for six years you may prune your vineyards and gather their crops. But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to YHWH. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.

Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you – for yourself, those who work for you and migrants who live among you as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

(Leviticus 25:2-7)

Count seven sabbath years – seven times seven years – so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years. Then sound the shofar everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month. On Yom Kipur sound the shofar throughout your land. Celebrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you. Each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan. The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you. Do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines. For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you. Eat only what is taken directly from the fields. In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property.

(Leviticus 25:8-13)

Do not oppress each other, but fear your God. I am YHWH your God.

(Leviticus 25:17)

If anyone of your kin falls into difficulty and sells a piece of property, then the next of kin shall come and redeem what the relative has sold.

(Leviticus 25:25)

If any of your comrades fall into difficulty and become dependent on you, you shall support them. They shall live with you as if they were resident migrants.

(Leviticus 25:35)

If any cannot afford the equivalent, they shall be brought before the priest and the priest shall assess them. The priest shall assess them according to what each one making a vow can afford.

(Leviticus 27:8)