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Deuteronomy 15 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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The Sabbatic Year

(Exo 21:1–11; Lev 25:1–7 )
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:1 - "At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD's release has been proclaimed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - Of a foreigner you may exact it; but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:4 - But there will be no poor among you (for the LORD will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess),
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - if only you will obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:6 - For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:7 - "If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:8 - but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - Take heed lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, 'The seventh year, the year of release is near,' and your eye be hostile to your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:10 - You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him; because for this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:11 - For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - "If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:13 - And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:14 - you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press; as the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:15 - You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:16 - But if he says to you, 'I will not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:17 - then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your bondman for ever. And to your bondwoman you shall do likewise.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18 - It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:19 - "All the firstling males that are born of your herd and flock you shall consecrate to the LORD your God; you shall do no work with the firstling of your herd, nor shear the firstling of your flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:20 - You shall eat it, you and your household, before the LORD your God year by year at the place which the LORD will choose.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:21 - But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind, or has any serious blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:22 - You shall eat it within your towns; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a hart.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:23 - Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
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