King James Version

1 At the end of seven years, you shall grant a release. 2 And this is the matter of the release: Every owner of a loan shall release what he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not press his neighbor and his brother, because a release has been proclaimed for the Lord. 3 You shall not oppress the foreigner, and whatever belongs to you, you shall release your hand from your brother. 4 There will be no poor among you, for the Lord will greatly bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess. 5 Only if you diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe and to do all the commandments that I command you today. 6 For the Lord your God will bless you as He has spoken to you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow, and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. 7 If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers, within any of your gates in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother. 8 For you will surely open your hand to him and lend enough to meet his need, which he is lacking. 9 Take heed to yourself, lest there be a matter in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is near," and your eye be evil against your brother the poor, and you do not give to him, and he cry out against you to the Lord, and it becomes sin in you. 10 You shall surely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings. 11 For the poor will not cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, "You shall open your hand to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy in your land." 12 If your Hebrew brother or sister is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. 13 And if you send him free from you, you shall not send him away empty. 14 You shall give to him from your flock, and from your threshing floor, and from your winepress, what your God, Yahweh, has blessed you with. 15 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore, I command you this word today. 16 And it shall be, when he says to you, "I will not go away from you," because he loves you and your house, for it is good for him with you. 17 And you shall take the earthen awl and put it in his ear and on the door, and he shall be your servant forever; and even to your maidservant you shall do likewise. 18 Do not let it be difficult in your eyes when you send him away free from you, for he has served you six years with the wage of a hired servant, and the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do. 19 Every firstborn that is born in your herd and in your flock, the male shall be dedicated to the Lord your God; you shall not work with your firstborn ox, nor shall you shear your firstborn sheep. 20 Before the LORD your God, you shall eat it year by year in the place that the LORD chooses, you and your household. 21 And if there is a blemish in it, a blind or lame animal, any bad blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. 22 In your gates, the unclean and the clean shall eat together like the deer and the gazelle. 23 Only his blood you shall not eat; on the earth you shall pour it out like water.