--Deuteronomy-- At the end of [every] seven years thou shalt make a release. (15:1) And this [is] the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth [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. (15:2) Of a foreigner thou mayest exact [it again]: but [that] which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release; (15:3) 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: (15:4) 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. (15:5) 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. (15:6) [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. (15:12) And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: (15:13) 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. (15:14) 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. (15:15) 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; (15:16) Then thou shalt take an awl, 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. (15:17) 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. (15:18) --Nehemiah-- And [if] the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, [that] we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and [that] we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. (10:31) |