ULT DEU Chapter 15

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15 At the end of seven years, you must make a remission. 2 And this is the word of the remission: Every owner of debt shall release his hand that he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not oppress his neighbor or his brother, because the remission of Yahweh has been proclaimed. 3 You may collect from a foreigner; and what is yours with your brother your hand shall release. 4 However, there should be no poor among you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, to possess it), 5 if only you indeed listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep doing all these commandments that I am commanding you today. 6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he spoke to you; you will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, and they will not rule over you.

7 If there is a poor man among you, from one of your brothers, within one of your gates in your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, you must not harden your heart and you must not shut your hand from your poor brother; 8 but you must surely open your hand to him and surely lend him enough for his need that he has need. 9 Watch yourselves, lest you have a wicked matter in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and you do wrong in your eyes against your poor brother and do not give to him, and he calls out to Yahweh about you, and it would be sin for you. 10 You must surely give to him, and your heart must not do evil in your giving to him; because of this matter Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all the sending out of your hand. 11 For the poor will not cease to be among the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You must surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor in your land.’

12 If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must send him out, free from you. 13 And when you send him out free from you, you must not send him emptily. 14 You must very liberally provide for him from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your winepress. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you must give to him. 15 And you must remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you today this matter.

16 And it will be, if he says to you, ‘I will not go from you,’ because he loves you and your house, because it is good for him to be with you, 17 then you shall take an awl and put it in his ear and to a door, and he shall be your slave forever. And also you shall do thus to your female servant.

18 It must not seem difficult in your eyes for you to send him out free from you, because he has served you six years with twice the value of a hired man. And Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

19 All the firstborn that are born in your herd and your flock, you shall sanctify the males to Yahweh your God. You shall not work with the firstborn of your herd, and you shall not shear the firstborn of your flock. 20 You must eat it year by year before the face of Yahweh your God in the place that Yahweh will choose, you and your household. 21 And if it has on it a blemish—lame or blind, any severe blemish—you must not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God. 22 You shall eat it within your gates; the unclean and the clean alike, as a gazelle or a deer. 23 Only you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

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