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15 : 1 At the end ofevery seven years you shall grant a release.
15 : 2 And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because theLord's release has been proclaimed.
15 : 3 Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.
15 : 4 But there will be no poor among you;for theLordwill bless you in the land that theLordyour God is giving you for an inheritance to possess&emdash;
15 : 5 if only you will strictly obey the voice of theLordyour God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today.
15 : 6 For theLordyour God will bless you,as he promised you, andyou shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, andyou shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
15 : 7 If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that theLordyour God is giving you,you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,
15 : 8 butyou shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
15 : 9 Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say,The seventh year, the year of release is near,and youreye look grudginglyon your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and hecry to theLordagainst you, andyou be guilty of sin.
15 : 10 You shall give to him freely, andyour heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, becausefor this theLordyour God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.
15 : 11 Forthere will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you,You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.
15 : 12 If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is soldto you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
15 : 13 And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed.
15 : 14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress.As theLordyour God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
15 : 15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and theLordyour God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.
15 : 16 Butif he says to you,I will not go out from you,because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you,
15 : 17 then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slaveforever. And to your female slaveyou shall do the same.
15 : 18 It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired worker he has served you six years. So theLordyour God will bless you in all that you do.
15 : 19 All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you shall dedicate to theLordyour God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
15 : 20 You shall eat it, you and your household, before theLordyour God year by year at the place that theLordwill choose.
15 : 21 But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind or has any serious blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to theLordyour God.
15 : 22 You shall eat it within your towns.The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer.
15 : 23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.