DE-15:1 At the end of [every] seven years thou shalt make a
release.
DE-15:2 And this [is] the manner of the release: Every creditor
that lendeth
[ought] unto his neighbour shall release [it]; he shall not
exact [it] of his
neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S
release.
DE-15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact [it again]: but [that]
which is
thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
DE-15:4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the
LORD shall
greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee [for] an
inheritance to possess it:
DE-15:5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the
LORD thy God, to
observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this
day.
DE-15:6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee:
and thou
shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and
thou shalt reign
over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
DE-15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren
within any of
thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou
shalt not
harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
DE-15:8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt
surely lend
him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he wanteth.
DE-15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,
saying, The
seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be
evil against
thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto
the LORD against
thee, and it be sin unto thee.
DE-15:10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not
be grieved
when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD
thy God shall
bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine
hand unto.
DE-15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land:
therefore I command
thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother,
to thy poor,
and to thy needy, in thy land.
DE-15:12 [And] if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew
woman, be sold
unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year
thou shalt let
him go free from thee.
DE-15:13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou
shalt not let him
go away empty:
DE-15:14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and
out of thy
floor, and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the LORD
thy God hath
blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
DE-15:15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in
the land of
Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command
thee this thing
to day.
DE-15:16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go
away from thee;
because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with
thee;
DE-15:17 Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust [it] through
his ear unto
the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto
thy maidservant
thou shalt do likewise.
DE-15:18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest
him away free
from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant [to
thee], in serving
thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all
that thou doest.
DE-15:19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of
thy flock thou
shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with
the firstling
of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
DE-15:20 Thou shalt eat [it] before the LORD thy God year by
year in the
place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
DE-15:21 And if there be [any] blemish therein, [as if it be]
lame, or blind,
[or have] any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the
LORD thy God.
DE-15:22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and
the clean
[person shall eat it] alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
DE-15:23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt
pour it upon
the ground as water.
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