The Seventh Year
(Exodus 23:10–13; Leviticus 25:1–7)

1From the end of seven years thou shalt make a remission: 2And this the word of the remission: Every lord to release the lending of his hand which he shall put upon his friend; he shall not exact his friend and his brother, for a remission was called to Jehovah. 3Foreigners thou shalt exact of, and what shall be to thee with thy brother thine hand shall remit: 4Only when no needy shall be with thee; for Jehovah blessing will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance to possess it: 5Only if hearing, thou shalt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to watch to do all these commands which I command thee this day. 6For Jehovah thy God blessed thee as he spake to thee: and thou didst lend to many nations, and thou shalt not borrow; and thou didst rule over many nations, and they shall not rule over thee.

Generosity in Lending and Giving
(Matthew 6:1–4)

7When the needy shall be among thee, from one of thy brethren, in one of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, and thou shalt not shut thy hand from thy needy brother. 8For opening, thou shalt open thy hand to him, and lending, thou shalt lend him a sufficiency for his want which he shall want. 9Watch to thyself lest a word shall be with thy heart, of Belial, saying. The seventh year, the year of remission is drawing near; and thine eye be evil against thy needy brother and thou wilt not give to him; and he call against thee to Jehovah, and it was sin in thee. 10Giving, thou shalt give to him, and thy heart shall not be evil in thy giving to him; for because of this word Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy works, and in all the sending forth of thy hand. 11For the needy shall not cease from the midst of thy land: for this I command thee, saying, Opening, thou shalt open thy hand to thy brother, to thy afflicted and to thy needy in thy land.

Hebrew Servants
(Exodus 21:1–11)

12When thy brother a Hebrew, or Hebrewess, shall be sold to thee, and serving thee six years; in the seventh year thou shalt send him away free from thee. 13And when thou shalt send him away free from thee, thou shalt not send him away empty. 14Furnishing, thou shalt furnish to him from thy sheep and from thy threshing floor, and from thy wine-vat: with which Jehovah thy God blessed thee thou shalt give to him. 15And remember that thou wert a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God will redeem thee: for I command thee this word this day. 16And it was when he shall say to thee, I will not go forth from thee; for he loved thee and thy house, for it was well to him with thee; 17And take an awl and give it upon his ear, and against the door, and he was to thee for a servant forever. And also to thy maid shalt thou do thus.

18It shall not be hard in thine eye in thy sending him away free from thee, because for the year of the wages of the hireling he served thee six years: and Jehovah thy God blessed thee in all which thou shalt do.

Firstborn Animals
(Exodus 13:1–16)

19All the first-born that shall be brought forth among thy cattle and among thy sheep, the male thou shalt consecrate to Jehovah thy God: thou shalt not work with the first-born of thy bullock, and thou shalt not shear first-born of thy sheep. 20Before Jehovah thy God thou shalt eat it year by year, in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou, and thy house. 21And when a blemish shall be in it, lame or blind, any evil blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God. 22In thy gates thou shalt eat it: the unclean and the clean together, as the roe and the stag. 23Only its blood thou shalt not eat: upon the earth shalt thou pour it as water.