Deuteronomy, Chapter 15, King James Bible

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Deuteronomy chapter fifteen. At the end of every seven years,
thou shalt make a release. And this is the manner
of the release. Every creditor that lendeth aught unto his
neighbor shall release it. He shall not exact it of
his neighbor or of his brother. Because it is called

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the Lord's release of a foreigner. Thou mayest exact it again.
But that which is thine, with thy brother, thine hand
shall release, 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. Only if thou carefully hearken unto the

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voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do
all these commandments which I command THEE this day. For
the Lord thy God blesseth THEE as he promised THEE.
And thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt
not borrow, and thou shalt reign over many nations. But
they shall not reign over THEE. If there be among

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you a poor man of one of thy brethren, within
any of thy gaits in thy land, which the Lord
thy God giveth THEE. Thou shalt not harden thine heart,
nor set thine hand from thy poor brother, but thou
shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely
lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.

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Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,
saying the seventh year the year of relief is at hand.
And then I be evil against thy poor brother, and
thou givest him not, and he cry unto the Lord
against THEE, and it be sin unto THEE. Thou shalt
surely give him. And thine heart shall not be greed

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when thou givest unto him, because that for this thing,
the Lord thy God, shall bless THEE in all thy works,
and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto, for
the poor shall never cease out of the land. Therefore
I command THEE, saying, thou shalt open thine hand wide
unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy

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in thy land. And if thy brother, an Hebrew man
or an Hebrew woman be sold unto THEE and serve
THEE six years, then in the seventh year thou shalt
let him go free from THEE. And when thou sendest
him out free from THEE, thou shalt not let him
go away empty. Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of

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thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of
thy wine press. Of that wherewith the Lord thy God
hath blessed THEE, thou shalt give unto him, 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, and it shall
be if he say, unto THEE, I will not go

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away from THEE, because he loveth THEE and thine house,
because he is well with THEE. Then thou shalt taken
all and thrust it through his ear unto the door,
and he shall be thy servant forever, and also unto
thy maid servant. Thou shalt do likewise, it shall not
seem hard unto THEE when thou sendest him away free

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from THEE, for he hath been worth a double hired
servant to THEE, in serving THEE six years. And the
Lord thy God shall bless THEE in all that thou
doest all the first thing males that come thy herd
and of thy flock, thou shalt sanctify. Unto the Lord
thy God, thou shalt do no work with the first
thing of thy bullock, nor shear the first thing of

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thy sheep. Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God,
year by year, in the place which the Lord shall
choose thou in thy household, And if there be any
blemish therein, as if it be lame or blind, or
have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it. Unto
the Lord thy God, thou shalt eat it within thy gates.

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The unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike
as the roebuck, and as the heart. Only. Thou shalt
not eat the blood thereof, Thou shalt pour it upon
the ground as water.