Verse 1
Deuteronomy 15:1
World English Bible, British Edition
1
At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִ/קֵּ֥ץ שֶֽׁבַע שָׁנִ֖ים תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה שְׁמִטָּֽה
English Translation
At the end of seven years, you shall grant a release.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
Done.
Sign in to save notes and annotations.
Chapter 15 Context
1
At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.
2
This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which
he has lent to his neighbo...
Focus ↗
3
Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your
brother, your hand shall relea...
Focus ↗
4
However there will be no poor with you (for the LORD will surely bless
you in the land which the LOR...
Focus ↗
5
if only you diligently listen to the LORD your God (Elohim)’s voice, to observe
to do all this comma...
Focus ↗
6
For the LORD your God (Elohim) will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend
to many nations, bu...
Focus ↗
7
If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates
in your land which the LOR...
Focus ↗
8
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him
sufficient for his need, which...
Focus ↗
9
Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The
seventh year, the year of rele...
Focus ↗
10
You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you
give to him, because it is for t...
Focus ↗
11
For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command
you to surely open your hand to y...
Focus ↗
12
If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and
serves you six years, then in t...
Focus ↗
13
When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.
Focus ↗
14
You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing
floor, and out of your wine...
Focus ↗
15
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and
the LORD your God (Elohim) redeem...
Focus ↗
16
It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because
he loves you and your house, bec...
Focus ↗
17
then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door,
and he shall be your servant...
Focus ↗
18
It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for
he has been double the value of...
Focus ↗
19
You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd
and of your flock to the LORD...
Focus ↗
20
You shall eat it before the LORD your God (Elohim) year by year in the place
which the LORD shall ch...
Focus ↗
21
If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever,
you shall not sacrifice it to the...
Focus ↗
22
You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall
eat it alike, as the gazelle and...
Focus ↗
23
Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground
like water.
Focus ↗