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Deuteronomy 15

Verse 2

And this is the manner of the release: Every 1 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.

  1. He shall only release his debtors, who are not able to pay for that year.

Verse 4

1 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:

  1. For if your debtor is rich, he may be forced to pay.

Verse 11

1 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt 2 open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

  1. To try your charity,

  2. You shall be liberal.

Verse 14

Thou shalt 1 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.

  1. In token that you acknowledge the benefit which God has given you by his labours.

Verse 17

Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant 1 for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

  1. To the year of Jubile,

Verse 18

It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double 1 hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

  1. For the hired servant served but three years, and he six.

Verse 19

All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: 1 thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

  1. For they are the Lords.

Verse 22

Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, 1 as the roebuck, and as the hart.

  1. You will eat them, as well as the roe buck and other wild beasts.