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he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD’S release hath been proclaimed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it; but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Howbeit there shall be no needy among you—for the LORD will surely bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it— <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For the LORD thy God will bless thee, as He promised thee; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If there be among you a needy man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates, in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying: ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand’; and thine eye be evil against thy needy brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin in thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing the LORD thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the poor shall never cease out of the land; therefore I command thee, saying: ‘Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy poor and needy brother, in thy land.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years; and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And it shall be, if he say unto thee: ‘I will not go out from thee’; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he fareth well with thee; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear and into the door, and he shall be thy bondman for ever. And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of a hireling hath he served thee six years; and the LORD thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy flock. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And if there be any blemish therein, lameness, or blindness, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Thou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Deuteronomy 14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../deuteronomy/16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Deuteronomy 16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/deuteronomy/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); var rcds = document.getElementById("rcjsload_a957f3"); var rcel = document.createElement("script"); rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); rcel.type = 'text/javascript'; rcel.src = "https://trends.revcontent.com/serve.js.php?w=111176&t="+rcel.id+"&c="+(new Date()).getTime()+"&width="+(window.outerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)+"&referer="+encodeURIComponent(referer); rcel.async = true; rcds.appendChild(rcel); })(); </script> </td></tr></table> <br /><br /> <div class="bot2"> <table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2-bhub.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></body></html>