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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"You must cancel your debts at the end of every seventh year. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2This is the way to conduct remission: every creditor must cancel the loan that his friend borrowed, and he must not pressure his friend or brother to repay it, because remission to the LORD will be proclaimed. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You may exact payment from a foreigner, but cancel whatever your brother owes you. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Moreover, there will be no poor person among you, for the LORD will surely bless you in the land that he is about to give you to possess. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Only be certain to obey the voice of the LORD your God. Carefully observe all of these commands that I'm commanding to you today. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For the LORD your God will bless you just as he promised. You are to lend to many nations but not borrow. Also, you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"If there should be a poor man among your relatives in one of the cities of the land that the LORD your God is about to give you, don't be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your poor relative. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Instead, be sure to open your hand to him and lend him enough to lessen his need. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Be careful not to think this wicked thought to yourselves: 'The seventh year, the year of remission, is drawing near,' and you show ill will toward your poor relative and not give to him. He may then call to the LORD on account of you, and you will be guilty of sin. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10You must certainly give to him and not feel regret for doing so. Because of this, the LORD your God will bless all your works and everything you do. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Since poor people won't cease to exist in the land, therefore I'm commanding you: Be sure to be generous to your poor and needy relatives in your land." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"When a fellow Hebrew male or female slave is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you are to set them free. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But when you set them free, don't send them away empty-handed. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Provide for them liberally from your flock, threshing floor, and wine vat. As the LORD your God has blessed you, so give to them. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Don't ever forget that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, yet the LORD your God redeemed you. Therefore, I'm giving you these commands today. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Should that slave say to you, 'I won't leave you,' because he loves you and your household, and it was good for him to be with you, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17then take an awl and pierce through his earlobe into the door. Then he will be your slave forever. You are to do the same for your female slaves. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Don't view this as a hardship for yourself when you set him free, for he will have served you for six years—twice the time of a paid worker. Then the LORD will bless you in all that you do." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male among your herd and flock. You must not put the firstborn of your ox to work or shear the firstborn of your flock. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Then in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your household must eat them every year at the place the LORD will choose. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21If it has a blemish—lameness, blindness, or any kind of defect—you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22In your cities both the unclean and the clean together are to eat together, as the gazelle and the deer. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Only you must not eat its blood. Pour it on the ground like water." |
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