Deuteronomy

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Chapter 15

1 At the terme of seuen yeeres thou shalt make a freedome.

2 And this [is] the manner of the release: Every He shall only release his debtors, who are not able to pay for that year. 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.

3 Of a stranger thou mayest require it: but that which thou hast with thy brother, thine hand shall remit:

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

5 So that thou hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God to obserue and doe all these commandements, which I commande thee this day.

6 For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, as he hath promised thee: and thou shalt lend vnto many nations, but thou thy selfe shalt not borow, and thou shalt reigne ouer many nations, & they shall not reigne ouer thee.

7 If one of thy brethren with thee be poore within any of thy gates in thy land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poore brother:

8 But thou shalt open thine hand vnto him, and shalt lend him sufficient for his neede which he hath.

9 Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thine heart, to say, The seuenth yeere, the yeere of freedome is at hand: therefore it grieueth thee to looke on thy poore brother, and thou giuest him nought, and he crie vnto the Lorde against thee, so that sinne be in thee:

10 Thou shalt giue him, and let it not grieue thine heart to giue vnto him: for because of this the Lord thy God shal blesse thee in al thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand to.

11 To try your charity, (Mat_26:11). For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt You shall be liberal. open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

12 If thy brother an Ebrewe sell himselfe to thee, or an Ebrewesse, and serue thee sixe yeere, euen in the seuenth yeere thou shalt let him goe free from thee:

13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him goe away emptie,

14 Thou shalt In token that you acknowledge the benefit which God has given you by his labours. 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.

15 And remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Egypt, & the Lord thy God deliuered thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

16 And if he say vnto thee, I will not go away from thee, because he loueth thee & thine house, and because he is well with thee,

17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust [it] through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant To the year of Jubile, (Lev_25:40). for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

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

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

20 Thou shalt eate it before the Lord thy God yeere by yeere, in the place which the Lord shall chose, both thou, and thine household.

21 But if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or haue any euill fault, thou shalt not offer it vnto the Lord thy God,

22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean [person shall eat it] alike, You will eat them, as well as the roe buck and other wild beasts. as the roebuck, and as the hart.

23 Onely thou shalt not eate the blood thereof, but powre it vpon the ground as water.

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