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Chapter 15 |
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At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. |
2 |
And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth
ought unto his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of
his neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's
release. |
3 | Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it
again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall
release; |
4 |
Save 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 for an inheritance to
possess it: |
5 | Only if thou carefully hearken unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments
which I command thee this day. |
6 | For
the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt
lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt
reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee. |
7 |
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any
of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou
shalt not harden thine heart, 1nor shut thine hand from
thy poor brother:
1
Matt 5:42,
Luke 6:34,
1st Tim 6:18
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8 |
But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him
sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. |
9 | Beware
that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh
year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine 1eye be
evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he
cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
1
Prov 23:6,
Matt 6:23,
Matt 20:15
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10 |
Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved
when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy
God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest
thine hand unto. |
11 | For the
1poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee,
saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy
poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
1
Matt 26:11,
John 12:8
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12 | And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or
an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then
in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. |
13 |
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him
go away empty: |
14 |
Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy
floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God
hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. |
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. |
16 | And it shall
be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he
loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; |
17 |
Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the
door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy
maidservant thou shalt do likewise. |
18 |
It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for
he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years:
and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest. |
19 | All the
firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt
sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the
firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. |
20 |
Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the
LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. |
21 | And if there be any blemish therein,
as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not
sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God. |
22 |
Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person
shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. |
23 | Only thou shalt not eat the blood
thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water. |