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The
Sabbatic Year |
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| Deuteronomy 15:1 |
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"At the end of every seven years you shall grant
a remission of debts. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:2 |
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This is the manner of remission: every creditor
shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his
neighbor and his brother, because the LORD'S remission has been proclaimed. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:3 |
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From a foreigner you may exact it, but your
hand shall release whatever of yours is with your brother. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:4 |
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However, there will be no poor among you, since
the LORD will surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you
as an inheritance to possess, |
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| Deuteronomy 15:5 |
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if only you listen obediently to the voice
of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding
you today. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:6 |
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For the LORD your God will bless you as He has
promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and
you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:7 |
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"If there is a poor man with you, one of your
brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the LORD your God is giving
you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother; |
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| Deuteronomy 15:8 |
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but you shall freely open your hand to him,
and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:9 |
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Beware that there is no base thought in your
heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,' and your eye
is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry
to the LORD against you, and it will be a sin in you. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:10 |
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You shall generously give to him, and your heart
shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your
God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:11 |
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For the poor will never cease to be in the land;
therefore I command you, saying, 'You shall freely open your hand to your brother,
to your needy and poor in your land.' |
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| Deuteronomy 15:12 |
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"If your kinsman, a Hebrew man or woman, is
sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall
set him free. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:13 |
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When you set him free, you shall not send him
away empty-handed. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:14 |
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You shall furnish him liberally from your flock
and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as
the LORD your God has blessed you. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:15 |
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You shall remember that you were a slave in
the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you
this today. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:16 |
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It shall come about if he says to you, 'I will
not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he fares
well with you; |
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| Deuteronomy 15:17 |
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then you shall take an awl and pierce it through
his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also you shall do
likewise to your maidservant. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:18 |
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"It shall not seem hard to you when you set
him free, for he has given you six years with double the service of a hired man;
so the LORD your God will bless you in whatever you do. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:19 |
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"You shall consecrate to the LORD your God
all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock; you shall
not work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:20 |
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You and your household shall eat it every year
before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:21 |
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But if it has any defect, such as lameness or
blindness, or any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your
God. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:22 |
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You shall eat it within your gates; the unclean
and the clean alike may eat it, as a gazelle or a deer. |
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| Deuteronomy 15:23 |
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Only you shall not eat its blood; you are to
pour it out on the ground like water. |
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