1At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.

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Deuteronomy 31:10, Deuteronomy 31:10, Exodus 23:10, Exodus 23:11, Leviticus 25:2

2This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because the Lord's release has been proclaimed.

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James 2:13, Luke 7:42, James 2:13, Luke 7:42, Luke 6:34

3Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.

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Deuteronomy 23:20, Deuteronomy 23:20, Exodus 22:25, 1 Corinthians 6:6, 1 Corinthians 6:7

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

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Isaiah 58:10, Isaiah 58:11, Isaiah 58:10, Isaiah 58:11, Proverbs 28:27

5if only you diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.

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Deuteronomy 28:1, Deuteronomy 28:15, Deuteronomy 28:1, Deuteronomy 28:15, Joshua 1:7

6For the Lord your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

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Deuteronomy 28:12, Deuteronomy 28:13, Deuteronomy 28:12, Deuteronomy 28:13, Luke 6:35

7If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

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1 John 3:16, 1 John 3:17, Deuteronomy 15:9, 1 John 3:16, 1 John 3:17

8but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

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Luke 6:34, Matthew 5:42, Luke 6:34, Matthew 5:42

9Beware 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 the Lord against you, and it be sin to you.

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Deuteronomy 24:15, Deuteronomy 24:15, Matthew 20:15, Matthew 20:15, Mark 7:21

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

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Proverbs 22:9, Proverbs 22:9, Hebrews 13:16, Hebrews 13:16, 1 Timothy 6:18

11For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

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Mark 14:7, Matthew 26:11, Mark 14:7, Matthew 26:11, John 12:8

12If your brother, a Hebrew 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.

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Jeremiah 34:14, Jeremiah 34:14, Exodus 21:2, Exodus 21:6, Leviticus 25:39

13When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

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Proverbs 3:27, Proverbs 3:28, Malachi 3:5, Jeremiah 22:13, Proverbs 3:27

14you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

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1 Corinthians 16:2, Nehemiah 8:10, Proverbs 10:22, Acts 20:35, Psalms 68:10

15You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.

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Deuteronomy 16:12, Deuteronomy 16:12, 1 John 4:9, 1 John 4:11, Isaiah 51:1

16It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you"; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

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Exodus 21:5, Exodus 21:6, Exodus 21:5, Exodus 21:6, Psalms 40:8

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.

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Leviticus 25:39, Leviticus 25:42, 1 Samuel 1:22, Leviticus 25:39, Leviticus 25:42

18It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.

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Isaiah 21:16, Luke 17:7, Luke 17:8, Isaiah 16:14, Isaiah 21:16

19All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to the Lord your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

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Exodus 13:2, Exodus 13:2, Exodus 13:12, Exodus 13:12, Deuteronomy 16:14

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

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Deuteronomy 12:17, Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 14:23, Deuteronomy 12:17

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

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Deuteronomy 17:1, Malachi 1:7, Malachi 1:8, Deuteronomy 17:1, Malachi 1:7

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

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Deuteronomy 12:21, Deuteronomy 12:22, Deuteronomy 12:15, Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 12:21

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

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Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 12:23, Leviticus 7:26, Deuteronomy 12:23