Deuteronomy
Chapter 15
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1At the end of seven years you shall grant a release.
2This is the word of the release. Every holder of a loan of his hand, which he has lent to his fellow, shall release it. He shall not press his fellow or his brother, because a release has been proclaimed for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Shemittah is a release, a letting drop of what is owed. The year is not given another name.
3The foreigner you may press. But what is yours with your brother, your hand shall release.
4There should be no needy person among you, for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will bless you, bless you, in the land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you as an inheritance to take possession of it,
5if only you listen, listen to the voice of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, to keep to do this whole command that I am commanding you today.
6For God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will bless you as he spoke to you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule many nations, but they shall not rule you.
7If there is a needy person among you, one of your brothers, in one of your gates in your land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, and you shall not shut your hand from your needy brother.
8You shall open your hand, open it, to him, and lend him, lend him, enough for his lack, whatever he lacks.
9Keep yourself, so that there is not a worthless thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is near, and your eye is evil against your needy brother, and you give him nothing, and he calls to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. against you, and it is a wrong in you.
10You shall give to him, give, and your heart shall not be resentful when you give to him, because for this thing God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will bless you in all your work and in all that your hand sends out.
11For the needy will not cease from the midst of the land. Therefore I command you, saying, You shall open your hand, open it, to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy in your land.
12If 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 send him free from you.
13When you send him free from you, you shall not send him empty.
14You shall furnish him, furnish him, from your flock, from your Beating cut grain so the seeds fall loose. floor, and from your wine vat. From what God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God has blessed you with, you shall give to him.
15You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God Bought back. you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
16If he says to you, I will not go out from you, because he loves you and your house, because it is good for him with you,
17you shall take the awl and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. You shall do the same for your female slave.
18It shall not be hard in your eyes when you send him free from you, for he has served you six years at twice the wage of a hired man, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will bless you in all that you do.
19Every firstborn male that is born in your herd and in your flock you shall set apart to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God. You shall not work with the firstborn of your ox, and you shall not shear the firstborn of your flock.
20Before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God you shall eat it, year by year, in the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. chooses, you and your household.
21If there is a defect in it, lameness or blindness, any bad defect, you shall not sacrifice it to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
22In your gates you shall eat it. The unclean and the clean together may eat it, like the gazelle and the deer.
23Only its blood you shall not eat. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.