Deut 15

15:1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

15:2 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.

15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine

with thy brother thine hand shall release;

15:4 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:

15:5 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.

15:6 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.

15:7 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, nor shut thine hand from thy poor

brother:

15:8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely

lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The

seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye 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.

15:10 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.

15:11 For the poor 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.

15:12 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.

15:13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let

him go away empty:

15:14 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.

15:15 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.

15:16 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;

15:17 Then thou shalt take an aul, 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.

15:18 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.