In the seventh year you shall be forgiven

which shall be celebrated in this order. He will not be able to reclaim anything owed to his friend, neighbor or brother, because it is the year of the Lord's release.

You shall exact from a foreigner and a stranger: you shall not have the power to claim a citizen or a kinsman.

And there will be no need or beggar among you: that the Lord your God may bless you in the land which he will deliver you in possession.

But if you will listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and keep all that he has commanded, and the things which I command you today, he will bless you, as he promised.

You shall lend to many nations, and you shall borrow from none. You shall rule over many nations, and no one shall rule over you.

If one of your brothers, who lives within the gates of your city in the land which Yahweh your God will give you, comes into poverty, you will not harden your heart, nor tighten your hand.

but you will open it to the poor, and you will give a loan by which you perceive that you need him.

Take heed lest an impious thought creep in to you, and say in your heart: The seventh year of forgiveness is at hand, and turn your eyes away from your poor brother, not wanting to lend him what he asks of you;

But thou shalt give it to him: nor do any thing subtly in assisting him in his necessities, that the Lord thy God may bless thee at all times, and in all things whatsoever thou wilt send out.

There shall never be any poor in the land of your habitation: therefore I command you to open your hand to your needy and poor brother, who is with you in the land.

When your brother, a Hebrew or a Hebrew, has been sold to you, and has served you six years, in the seventh year you will release him free.

and you will not allow him whom you have granted his freedom to go away empty.

but you shall provide some food for the flock, and for the threshing-floor, and for your winepress, with which the Lord your God will bless you.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God set you free, and therefore I command you now.

But if he should say, 'I will not go away', because he loves you and your house, and feels well with you,

you shall take an awl and pierce through his ear at the door of your house, and he will serve you forever. And you shall do the same to your maidservant.

Turn not away your eyes from them when you let them go free, for he has served you six years according to the wages of a hireling; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works that you do.

Of the firstlings that are born of your herds and your sheep, you shall sanctify to the Lord your God whatever is of the male sex. You shall not work with the firstborn of an ox, and you shall not shear the firstborn of the flock.

You shall eat them in the sight of the Lord your God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, both you and your household.

But if there is a defect, or lameness, or blindness, or in any part deformed or weak, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord your God.

but you shall eat it within the gates of your city.

You shall take heed only of this, that you shall not eat their blood, but pour it out upon the earth as water.