Deuteronomy:15

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* At the end of every seven years you shall make a release . * And this is the manner of the release : Every creditor that lends ought unto his neighbour shall release it ; he shall not exact it of his neighbour , or of his brother ; because it is called the LORD 's release . * Of a foreigner you may exact it again : but that which is yours with your brother yours hand shall release ; * Save when there shall be no poor among you ; for the LORD shall greatly bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it : * Only if you carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God , to observe to do all these commandments which I command you this day . * For the LORD your God blesses you , as he promised you : and you shall lend unto many nations , but you shall not borrow ; and you shall reign over many nations , but they shall not reign over you . * If there be among you a poor man of one of your brethren within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you , you shall not harden yours heart , nor shut yours hand from your poor brother : * But you shall open yours hand wide unto him , and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need , in that which he wants . * Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart , saying , The seventh year , the year of release , is at hand ; and yours eye be evil against your poor brother , and you give him nothing ; and he cry unto the LORD against you , and it be sin unto you . * You shall surely give him , and yours heart shall not be grieved when you give unto him : because that for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works , and in all that you put yours hand unto . * For the poor shall never cease out of the land : therefore I command you , saying , You shall open yours hand wide unto your brother , to your poor , and to your needy , in your land . * And if your brother , an Hebrew man , or an Hebrew woman , be sold unto you , and serve you six years ; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you . * And when you send him out free from you , you shall not let him go away empty : * You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock , and out of your floor , and out of your winepress : of that wherewith the LORD your God has blessed you you shall give unto him . * And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt , and the LORD your God redeemed you : therefore I command you this thing to day . * And it shall be , if he say unto you , I will not go away from you ; because he loves you and yours house , because he is well with you ; * Then you shall take an aul , and thrust it through his ear unto the door , and he shall be your servant for ever . And also unto your maidservant you shall do likewise . * It shall not seem hard unto you , when you send him away free from you ; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you , in serving you six years : and the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do . * All the first born males that come of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify unto the LORD your God : you shall do no work with the first born of your bullock , nor shear the first born of your sheep . * You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose , you and your household . * And if there be any blemish therein , as if it be lame , or blind , or have any ill blemish , you shall not sacrifice it unto the LORD your God . * You shall eat it within your gates : the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike , as the roebuck , and as the hart . * Only you shall not eat the blood thereof ; you shall pour it upon the ground as water .

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