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¹ "At the end of seven years you shall grant a remission of debt. ² And this is the manner of the remission of debt: every creditor^[a] shall remit his claim that he holds against his neighbor, and he shall not exact payment from his brother because there^[b] a remission of debt has been proclaimed unto^[c] Yahweh. ³ With respect to the foreigner you may exact payment, but you must remit^[d] what shall be owed to you with respect to your brother. ⁴ Nevertheless, there^[e] shall not be among you a poor person, because Yahweh will certainly bless you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, to take possession of it. ⁵ If only you listen well to the voice of Yahweh your God by observing diligently^[f] all of these commandments^[g] that I am commanding you today.^{[h] 6} When Yahweh your God has blessed you, just as he promised^[i] to you, then you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow from them, and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. ⁷ If there is a poor person among you from among one of your brothers in one of your towns^[j] that Yahweh your God is giving to you, you shall not harden your heart, and you shall not shut your hand toward your brother who is poor.^{[k] 8} But you shall certainly open your hand for him, and you shall willingly lend^[l] to him enough to meet his need, whatever it is.^{[m] 9} Take care^[n] so that there^[o] will not be a thought of wickedness^[p] in your heart, saying,^[q] ‘The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' and you view your needy neighbor with hostility,^[r] and so you do not give to him, and he might cry out against you to Yahweh, and you would incur guilt against yourself.^{[s] 10} By all means you must give to him, and you must not be discontented^[t] at your giving to him, because on account of this very thing, Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.^{[u] 11} For the poor^[v] will not cease to be among you^[w] in the land; therefore I am commanding you, saying,^[x] ‘You shall willingly open your hand to your brother, to your needy and to your poor that are in your land.'

¹² If your relative^[y] who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you, and he or she has served you six years, then in the seventh year you shall send that person out free.^{[z] 13} And when you send him out free from you, you shall not send him away empty-handed. ¹⁴ You shall generously supply him from among your flocks and from your threshing floor and from your press; according to that with which Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. ¹⁵ And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you thus today.^{[aa] 16} And then if it will happen that he says to you, ‘I do not want to go out^[ab] from you,' because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him to be with you; ¹⁷ then you shall take an awl, and you shall thrust it through his earlobe and into the door, and he shall be to you a slave forever;^[ac] and you shall also do likewise for your slave woman. ¹⁸ It shall not be hard in your eyes when you send him forth free,^[ad] because for six years he has served you worth twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you in whatever you will do.^[ae]

¹⁹ "Every firstling male that is born of your herd and of your flock you shall consecrate to Yahweh your God; you shall not do work with the firstling of your ox, and you shall not shear the firstling of your flock. ²⁰ Rather before Yahweh^[af] your God you shall eat it year by year at the place Yahweh will choose, you and your household. ²¹ But if there is a physical defect in it, such as lameness or blindness, any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God. ²² In your towns^[ag] you shall eat it, the unclean and the clean together may eat it, just as they eat the gazelle and as they eat the deer. ²³ But you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water."