1 GLT At the end of seven years, you must make a remission. BSB BSB: At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
2 GLT And this{ is} the word of the remission: Every owner of debt shall release his hand that he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not oppress his neighbor or his brother, because the remission of Yahweh has been proclaimed. BSB BSB: This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.
3 GLT You may collect{ from} a foreigner; and what is yours{ with} your brother your hand shall release. BSB BSB: You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
4 GLT However, there should be no poor among you(for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you{ as} an inheritance, to possess it), BSB BSB: There will be no poor among you, however, because the LORD will surely bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance,
5 GLT if only you indeed listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep doing all these commandments that I am commanding you today. BSB BSB: if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving you today.
6 GLT For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he spoke to you; you will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, and they will not rule over you. BSB BSB: When the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.
7 GLT If there is a poor man among you, from one of your brothers, within one of your gates in your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, you must not harden your heart and you must not shut your hand from your poor brother; BSB BSB: If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
8 GLT but you must surely open your hand to him and surely lend him enough{ for} his need that he has need. BSB BSB: Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
9 GLT Watch yourselves, lest you have a wicked matter in your heart, saying,‘The seventh year, the year of remission,{ is} near,’ and you do wrong in your eyes against your poor brother and do not give to him, and he calls out to Yahweh about you, and it would be sin for you. BSB BSB: Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
10 GLT You must surely give to him, and your heart must not do evil in your giving to him; because of this matter Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all the sending out of your hand. BSB BSB: Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.
11 GLT For the poor will not cease to be among the land; therefore I command you, saying,‘You must surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor in your land.’ BSB BSB: For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
13 GLT And when you send him out free from you, you must not send him emptily. BSB BSB: And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.
14 GLT You must very liberally provide for him from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your winepress. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you must give to him. BSB BSB: You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.
15 GLT And you must remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you today this matter. BSB BSB: Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.
16 GLT And it will be, if he says to you,‘I will not go from you,’ because he loves you and your house, because{ it is} good for him{ to be} with you, BSB BSB: But if your servant says to you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household and is well off with you,
17 GLT then you shall take an awl and put{ it} in his ear and to a door, and he shall be your slave forever. And also you shall do thus to your female servant. BSB BSB: then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
18 GLT It must not seem difficult in your eyes for you to send him out free from you, because he has served you six years{ with} twice the value of a hired man. And Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do. BSB BSB: Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
19 GLT All the firstborn that are born in your herd and your flock, you shall sanctify the males to Yahweh your God. You shall not work with the firstborn of your herd, and you shall not shear the firstborn of your flock. BSB BSB: You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.
20 GLT You must eat it year by year before the face of Yahweh your God in the place that Yahweh will choose, you and your household. BSB BSB: Each year you and your household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose.
21 GLT And if it has on it a blemish— lame or blind, any severe blemish— you must not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God. BSB BSB: But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
22 GLT You shall eat{ it} within your gates; the unclean and the clean alike, as a gazelle or a deer. BSB BSB: Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.
23 GLT Only you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water. BSB BSB: But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
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