1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lends ought to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called Jehovah 's release.
3 Of a foreigner you may exact it again: but that which is yours with your brother your hand shall release;
4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for Jehovah shall greatly bless you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it:
5 Only if you carefully listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command you this day.
6 For Jehovah your God blesses you, as he promised you; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.
7 If there be among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not harden your mind, nor shut your hand from your poor brother:
8 But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wants.
9 Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked mind, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him naught; and he cry to Jehovah against you, and it is sin to you.
10 You shall surely give him, and your mind shall not be grieved when you give to him: because for this thing Jehovah your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.
11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.
12 And if your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
13 And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty:
14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which Jehovah your God has blessed you you shall give to him.
15 And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing to day.
16 And it shall be, if he say to you, I will not go away from you; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
17 Then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant for the age.  And also to your maid servant you shall do likewise.
18 It shall not seem hard to you, when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and Jehovah your God shall bless you in all that you do.
19 All the first born males that come of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Jehovah your God: you shall do no work with the first born of your bullock, nor shear the first born of your sheep.
20 You shall eat it before Jehovah your God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, you and your household.
21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it is lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to Jehovah your God.
22 You shall eat it within your gates: the impure and the pure person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
23 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.