1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
2
This is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lends anything to his neighbor
shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother;
because it is called I AM’s (the LORD, Yehovah) release.
3
Of a foreigner you may exact it again: but that which is yours with your
brother your hand shall release;
4
Except when there are no poor among you; for I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) shall
greatly bless you in the land which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God
(‘Elohiym) gives you for an inheritance to possess it:
5
Only if you carefully hearken to the voice of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God
(‘Elohiym), to observe to do all these commandments which I command you this
day.
6
For I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your/our God (‘Elohiym) blesses you, as He
promised you: you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. You
shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.
7
If there be among you a poor man of one of your brethren within any of your
gates in your land which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah)
your God (‘Elohiym) gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your
hand from your poor brother:
8
But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient
for his need, in that which he wants.
9
Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying: The seventh
year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor
brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) against
you, and it becomes sin to you.
10
You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to
him: because for this thing I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) shall
bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.
11
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore, I command you,
saying: You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your
needy, in your land.
12
If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you
six years; then in the seventh year, you shall let him go free from you.
13
And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty:
14
You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your floor, and
out of your winepress: of that with which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God
(‘Elohiym) has blessed you, you shall give to him.
15
You shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Double Straights
(Egypt), and I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) redeemed you:
therefore I command you this thing today.
16
And it shall be if he says to you: I will not go away from you; because he
loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
17
Then you shall take an aul, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he
shall be your servant forever. And also to your maidservant, you shall do
likewise.
18
It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away free from you; for he has
been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and I AM
(the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) shall bless you in all that you do.
19
All the firstling males that come of your herd and of your flock you shall
sanctify to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym): you shall do no work
with the firstling of your bullock, nor shear the firstling of your sheep.
20
You shall eat it before I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) year by
year in the place which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) shall choose, you and your
household.
21
If there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill
blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God
(‘Elohiym).
22
You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat
it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
23
Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it upon the ground as
water.
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