| 1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
2 And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that
which he hath lent unto his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor
and his brother; because Jehovah's release hath been proclaimed. 3 Of a
foreigner thou mayest exact it: but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother
thy hand shall release. 4 Howbeit there shall be no poor with thee; (for
Jehovah will surely bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee
for an inheritance to possess it;) 5 if only thou diligently hearken unto
the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I
command thee this day. 6 For Jehovah thy God will bless thee, as he
promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not
borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over
thee.
7 If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy
gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden
thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother; 8 but thou shalt
surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his
need in that which he wanteth. 9 Beware that there be not a base
thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at
hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him
nought; and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when
thou givest unto him; because that for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless
thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto. 11 For
the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying,
Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy
poor, in thy land.
12 If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and
serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free
from thee. 13 And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not
let him go empty: 14 thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock,
and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; as Jehovah thy God
hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. 15 And thou shalt remember
that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed
thee: therefore I command thee this thing to-day. 16 And it shall be, if
he say unto thee, I will not go out from thee; because he loveth thee and thy
house, because he is well with thee; 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 maid-servant thou shalt do likewise. 18 It shall
not seem hard unto thee, when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the
double of the hire of a hireling hath he served thee six years: and Jehovah
thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.
19 All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou
shalt sanctify unto Jehovah thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling
of thy herd, nor shear the firstling of thy flock. 20 Thou shalt eat it
before Jehovah thy God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose,
thou and thy household. 21 And if it have any blemish, as if it be
lame or blind, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto
Jehovah thy God. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and
the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon
the ground as water.
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