These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Deuteronomy 15
Tanakh 23 verses
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At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
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And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because Yahweh’S release hath been proclaimed.
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Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it; but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.
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- 4 Howbeit there shall be no needy among you—for will surely thee in the land which thy giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it—
- 5 if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of thy , to observe to do all this which I command thee this day.
- 6 For thy will 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.
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If there be among you a needy man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates, in thy land which thy giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy , nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;
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but thou shalt surely open thy hand 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 base thought in thy , 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 against thee, and it be sin in thee.
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Deuteronomy 24:15 Matthew 20:15 James 5:4 Job 34:28 Exodus 22:23 Proverbs 23:6 Proverbs 28:22 Romans 7:8-9 Mark 7:21-22 Jeremiah 17:10 James 5:9 James 4:17 Proverbs 21:13 Matthew 15:19 1 Peter 4:9 Matthew 25:41-45 1 John 3:15-17 Proverbs 24:9 Exodus 3:7 Deuteronomy 28:54-56 Psalm 9:12 Deuteronomy 15:1 Proverbs 4:23 James 4:5 - 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thy shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing thy will thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.
- 11 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.’
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If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, he shall thee six years; and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
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And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty;
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thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; of that wherewith thy hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
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- 15 And thou shalt that thou wast a bondman in the land of , and thy redeemed thee; therefore I command thee this thing to-day.
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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;
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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.
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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 thy will thee in all that thou doest.
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- 19 All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto thy ; thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy flock.
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Thou shalt eat it before thy year by year in the place which shall choose, thou and thy household.
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And if there be any blemish therein, lameness, or blindness, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not it unto thy .
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Thou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the may eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
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Only thou shalt not eat the thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.
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