1At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.

2¹⁰⁸This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. ¹⁰⁹He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother; because Adonai’s release has been proclaimed.

3¹¹⁰Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.

4However there shall be no poor with you (for Adonai will surely bless you in the land which Adonai your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it)

5if only you sh'ma ·hear obey· sh'ma ·hear obey· Adonai your God’s voice, to observe to do all this mitzvot ·instructions· which I am enjoining to you today.

6For Adonai your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

7¹¹¹If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Adonai your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

8¹¹²but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

9¹¹³Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;” and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Adonai against you, and it be crime deserving peanlty, sin ·missing the goal· to you.

10You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Adonai your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

11For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I enjoin you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

12If your brother, a Hebrew [Immigrant] man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

13¹¹⁴When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.

14¹¹⁵You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Adonai your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

15You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], and Adonai your God redeemed you. Therefore I enjoin you this thing today.

16It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he 'ahav ·affectionately loves· you and your house, because he is well with you;

17then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

18It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for he has been double value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Adonai your God will bless you in all that you do. (7)

19You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to Adonai your God. ¹¹⁶You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, ¹¹⁷nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

20You shall eat it before Adonai your God year by year in the place which Adonai shall choose, you and your household.

21If it has any defect, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Adonai your God.

22You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the deer.

23Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.