Deuteronomy:15

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* At the end of seven years thou shalt make a release . * And this the manner of the release : Every creditor that lendeth to his neighbour shall release ; he shall not exact of his neighbour , or of his brother ; because it is called the LORD ’S release . (note :)creditor : Hebrews . master of the lending of his hand (:note ) * Of a foreigner thou mayest exact : but which is thine with thy brother thy hand shall release ; * Except when there shall be no poor among you ; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee an inheritance to possess it : (note :)Save …: or , To the end that there be no poor among you (:note ) * Only if thou shalt carefully hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God , to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day . * For the LORD thy God shall bless thee , as he promised thee : and thou shalt lend to many nations , but thou shalt not borrow ; and thou shalt reign over many nations , but they shall not reign over thee . * If there shall be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD the God giveth thee , thou shalt not harden thy heart , nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother : * But thou shalt open thy hand wide to him , and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need , which he lacketh . * Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart , saying , The seventh year , the year of release , is at hand ; and thy eye shall be evil against thy poor brother , and thou shalt give him nothing ; and he shall cry to the LORD against thee , and it shall be sin to thee . (note :)thought : Hebrews . word (:note )wicked : Heb . Belial * Thou shalt surely give him , and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest to him : because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works , and in all that thou puttest thy hand to . * For the poor shall never cease from the land : therefore I command thee , saying , Thou shalt open thy hand wide to thy brother , to thy poor , and to thy needy , in thy land . * if thy brother , an Hebrew man , or an Hebrew woman , shall be sold to thee , and serve thee six years ; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee . * And when thou sendest him out free from thee , thou shalt not let him depart empty : * Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock , and out of thy floor , and out of thy winepress : which the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give to him . * And thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in the land of Egypt , and the LORD thy God redeemed thee : therefore I command thee this thing this day . * And it shall be , if he shall say to thee , I will not leave thee ; because he loveth thee and thy house , because he is well with thee ; * Then thou shalt take an awl , and thrust through his ear into the door , and he shall be thy servant for ever . And also to thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise . * It shall not seem hard to thee , when thou sendest him away free from thee ; for he hath been of double the worth of a hired servant , in serving thee six years : and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest . * All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify to the LORD thy God : thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy herd , nor shear the firstling of thy flock . * Thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose , thou and thy household . * And if there is blemish in it , lame , or blind , any ill blemish , thou shalt not sacrifice it to the LORD thy God . * Thou shalt eat it within thy gates : the unclean and the clean alike , as the roebuck , and as the hart . * Only thou shalt not eat its blood ; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water .

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