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At the end
of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
02 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.
03 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but
that which is thine with thy brother thine hand
shall release;
04 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:
05 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.
06 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.
07 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:
08 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him,
and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his
need, in that which he wanteth.
09 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.
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.
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.
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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.
13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee,
thou shalt not let him go away empty:
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.
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.
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;
17 Then thou shalt take an aul, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof;
thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
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