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Chapter 15  
     
1.
 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
  
2.
 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lends ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the Lord's release.
  
3.
 Of a foreigner you may exact it again: but that which is yours with thy brother your hand shall release;  
4.
 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless you in the land which the Lord thy God gives you for an inheritance to possess it:
  
5.
 Only if you carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I Moses command you this day.
  
6.
 For the Lord thy God blesses thee, as he promised thee: and you shall lend unto many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
  
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 gives thee, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from thy poor brother:
  
8.
 But you shall open your hand wide unto him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
  
9.
 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against thy poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
  
10.
 Thou shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless you in all thy works, and in all that you puttest your hand unto.
  
11.
 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, You shall open your hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
  
12.
 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from thee.
  
13.
 And when you send him out free from thee, you shall not let him go away empty:
  
14.
 Thou shall furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the Lord thy God has blessed you you shall give unto him.
  
15.
 And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command you this thing to day.
  
16.
 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth you and your house, because he is well with thee;
  
17.
 Then you shall 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 you shall do likewise.
  
18.
 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when you send him away free from thee; for he has been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving you six years: and the Lord thy God shall bless you in all that you doest.
  
19.
 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock you shall sanctify unto the Lord thy God: you shall do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
  
20.
 Thou shall eat it before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, you and thy household.
  
21.
 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, you shall not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God.
  
22.
 Thou shall eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
  
23.
 Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.
  

 
 
 

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