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On the mountain of Sinai, G-d communicates to Moses the laws of
the sabbatical year. Every seventh year, all work on the land
should cease, and its produce becomes free for the taking for
all, man and beast.
Seven sabbatical cycles are followed by a fiftieth year -- the
jubilee year, on which work on the land ceases, all indentured
servants are set free, and all ancestral estates in the Holy
Land that have been sold revert to their original owners.
Behar also contains additional laws governing the sale of lands,
and the prohibitions against fraud and usury.
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