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Deuteronomy 15 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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The Sabbatic Year

(Exo 21:1–11; Lev 25:1–7 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:1 - At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it: but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:4 - 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),

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:6 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:7 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:8 - but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:10 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:11 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:13 - And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:14 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:15 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:16 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 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 maid-servant thou shalt do likewise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:19 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:20 - Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou and thy household.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:21 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:22 - Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:23 - Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.
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