jps - Deuteronomy:15:12-18

jps@Deuteronomy:15:12 @ If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years; and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

jps@Deuteronomy:15:13 @ And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty;

jps@Deuteronomy:15:14 @ thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

jps@Deuteronomy:15:15 @ 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.

jps@Deuteronomy: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 fareth well with thee;

jps@Deuteronomy:15:17 @ then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear and into the door, and he shall be thy bondman for ever. And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise.

jps@Deuteronomy: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 the LORD thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.