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At the end of
every seven years thou shalt make a release.
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And this
is the manner of the release: everyone who has lent anything to his neighbour, causing him to be in debt, shall release
it; he shall not exact it any more of his neighbour or of his brother, because the release of the LORD is proclaimed.
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Of the foreigner thou shalt demand that it be repaid; but
that which thy brother has of thine thy hand shall release,
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so that thus there shall be no poor among you, for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee
for an inheritance to possess it;
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only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep and to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
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For when the LORD thy God has blessed thee, as he promised thee, thou shalt lend unto many Gentiles, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many Gentiles, but they shall not rule over thee.
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If there should be
among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy towns in thy land which the LORD thy God gives thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother,
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but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he lacks.
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Keep thyself that there not be a thought of Belial in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother to give him nothing; for he shall cry unto the LORD against thee, and it shall be a sin unto thee.
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Thou shalt surely give unto him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him because for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works and in all that thou puttest thine hand to.