29AND HE WILL COME THE LEVITE FOR NOT [BELONGS] TO <THE> HIM A PORTION AND AN INHERITANCE WITH YOU AND THE SOJOURNER AND THE FATHERLESS ONE AND THE WIDOW WHO [ARE] IN GATES YOUR AND THEY WILL EAT AND THEY WILL BE SATISFIED SO THAT HE MAY BLESS YOU YAHWEH GOD YOUR IN ALL [THE] WORK OF HAND YOUR WHICH YOU WILL DO 29Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.
1FROM [THE] END OF SEVEN YEARS YOU WILL OBSERVE A REMISSION The Seventh Year (Exodus 23:10–13; Leviticus 25:1–7) 1At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
2AND THIS [IS] [THE] MANNER OF THE REMISSION HE WILL REMIT EVERY OWNER [THE] LOAN OF HAND HIS WHICH HE WILL LEND TO NEIGHBOR HIS NOT HE WILL PRESS <OBJ.> NEIGHBOR HIS AND <OBJ.> COUNTRYMAN HIS FOR SOMEONE HAS PROCLAIMED A REMISSION OF YAHWEH 2This 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<OBJ.> THE FOREIGNER YOU WILL PRESS AND [THAT] WHICH IT WILL BELONG TO <THE> YOU WITH COUNTRYMAN YOUR LET IT RELEASE HAND YOUR 3You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
4NEVERTHELESS FOR NOT HE WILL BE AMONG <THE> YOU A NEEDY [PERSON] FOR SURELY <BLESS> HE WILL BLESS YOU YAHWEH IN THE LAND WHICH YAHWEH GOD YOUR [IS] ABOUT TO GIVE TO <THE> YOU AN INHERITANCE TO TAKE POSSESSION OF IT 4There 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,
5ONLY <IF> CERTAINLY [IF] <LISTEN> YOU WILL LISTEN TO [THE] VOICE OF YAHWEH GOD YOUR TO TAKE CARE TO OBSERVE <OBJ.> ALL THE COMMANDMENT <THE> THIS WHICH I [AM] COMMANDING YOU THIS DAY 5if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving you today.
6FOR YAHWEH GOD YOUR HE HAS BLESSED YOU JUST AS HE SPOKE TO <THE> YOU AND YOU WILL LEND TO NATIONS MANY AND YOU NOT YOU WILL BORROW AND YOU WILL RULE OVER NATIONS MANY AND OVER <THE> YOU NOT THEY WILL RULE 6When 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.
7IF HE WILL BE AMONG <THE> YOU A NEEDY [PERSON] ANY ONE OF COUNTRYMEN YOUR IN ONE OF GATES YOUR IN LAND YOUR WHICH YAHWEH GOD YOUR [IS] ABOUT TO GIVE TO <THE> YOU NOT YOU WILL HARDEN <OBJ.> HEART YOUR AND NOT YOU WILL SHUT <OBJ.> HAND YOUR FROM COUNTRYMAN YOUR <THE> NEEDY Generosity in Lending and Giving (Matthew 6:1–4) 7If 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*NoteCloseOr make strong or make courageous your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
8FOR CERTAINLY <TO OPEN> YOU WILL OPEN <OBJ.> HAND YOUR TO <THE> HIM AND CERTAINLY <TO LEND> YOU WILL LEND TO HIM SUFFICIENCY OF LACK HIS WHICH IT WILL BE LACKING TO <THE> HIM 8Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
9TAKE HEED TO <THE> YOURSELF LEST IT SHOULD BE A WORD WITH HEART YOUR WORTHLESSNESS <TO> SAYING IT HAS DRAWN NEAR [THE] YEAR OF THE SEVEN [THE] YEAR OF THE REMISSION AND IT WILL BE EVIL EYE YOUR ON COUNTRYMAN YOUR <THE> NEEDY AND NOT YOU WILL GIVE TO <THE> HIM AND HE WILL CALL OUT AGAINST YOU TO YAHWEH AND IT WILL BE ON <THE> YOU SIN 9Be 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.
10CERTAINLY <TO GIVE> YOU WILL GIVE TO <THE> HIM AND NOT IT WILL SADDEN HEART YOUR WHEN GIVING YOU TO <THE> HIM FOR ON ACCOUNT OF THE THING <THE> THIS HE WILL BLESS YOU YAHWEH GOD YOUR IN ALL WORK YOUR AND IN EVERY <THE> UNDERTAKING OF HAND YOUR 10Give 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.
11FOR NOT HE WILL CEASE [THE] NEEDY FROM [THE] MIDST OF THE LAND THERE- -FORE I [AM] COMMANDING YOU <TO> SAYING CERTAINLY <TO OPEN> YOU WILL OPEN <OBJ.> HAND YOUR TO COUNTRYMAN YOUR TO POOR [PERSON] YOUR AND TO NEEDY [PERSON] YOUR IN LAND YOUR 11For 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.
12IF HE WILL SELL HIMSELF TO <THE> YOU COUNTRYMAN YOUR <THE> HEBREW [MASC] OR <THE> HEBREW [FEM] AND HE WILL SERVE YOU SIX YEARS AND IN THE YEAR <THE> SEVENTH YOU WILL LET GO HIM A FREE [PERSON] FROM WITH <THE> YOU Hebrew Servants (Exodus 21:1–11) 12If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold*NoteCloseOr sells himself to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
13AND IF YOU WILL LET GO HIM A FREE [PERSON] FROM WITH <THE> YOU NOT YOU WILL LET GO HIM EMPTILY 13And when you release him do not send him away empty-handed.
14CERTAINLY <TO PROVIDE> YOU WILL PROVIDE FOR <THE> HIM FROM FLOCK YOUR AND FROM THRESHING FLOOR YOUR AND FROM WINE-PRESS YOUR [THAT] WHICH HE HAS BLESSED YOU YAHWEH GOD YOUR YOU WILL GIVE TO <THE> HIM 14You 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.
15AND YOU WILL REMEMBER THAT A SLAVE YOU WERE IN [THE] LAND OF EGYPT AND HE REDEEMED YOU YAHWEH GOD YOUR THERE- -FORE I [AM] COMMANDING YOU <OBJ.> THE MATTER <THE> THIS THIS DAY 15Remember 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.
16AND IT WILL BE THAT HE WILL SAY TO YOU NOT I WILL GO OUT FROM WITH <THE> YOU FOR HE LOVES YOU AND <OBJ.> HOUSEHOLD YOUR FOR IT HAS BEEN GOOD FOR <THE> HIM WITH YOU 16But 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,
17AND YOU WILL TAKE <OBJ.> THE AWL AND YOU WILL PUT [IT] IN EAR HIS AND IN THE DOOR AND HE WILL BE OF YOU A SLAVE OF PERPETUITY AND ALSO TO MAIDSERVANT YOUR YOU WILL DO THUS 17then 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.
18NOT IT WILL BE HARD IN VIEW YOUR WHEN LETTING GO YOU <OBJ.> HIM A FREE [PERSON] FROM WITH <THE> YOU FOR DOUBLE [THE] HIRE OF A HIRED LABORER HE HAS SERVED YOU SIX YEARS AND HE WILL BLESS YOU YAHWEH GOD YOUR IN ALL THAT YOU WILL DO 18Do 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.
19EVERY <THE> FIRSTBORN WHICH IT WILL BE BORN IN HERD YOUR AND IN FLOCK YOUR THE MALE YOU WILL CONSECRATE TO YAHWEH GOD YOUR NOT YOU WILL LABOR BY [THE] FIRSTBORN OF OX[EN] YOUR AND NOT YOU WILL SHEAR [THE] FIRSTBORN OF SHEEP YOUR Firstborn Animals (Exodus 13:1–16) 19You 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<TO> BEFORE YAHWEH GOD YOUR YOU WILL EAT IT A YEAR IN A YEAR IN THE PLACE WHICH HE WILL CHOOSE YAHWEH YOU AND HOUSEHOLD YOUR 20Each year you and your household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose.
21AND IF IT WILL BE IN <THE> IT A BLEMISH LAME OR BLIND ANY BLEMISH BAD NOT YOU WILL SACRIFICE IT TO YAHWEH GOD YOUR 21But 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.
22IN GATES YOUR YOU WILL EAT IT THE UNCLEAN AND THE CLEAN ALIKE LIKE <THE> GAZELLE AND LIKE <THE> DEER 22Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.
23ONLY <OBJ.> BLOOD ITS NOT YOU MUST EAT ON THE GROUND YOU WILL POUR OUT IT LIKE <THE> WATER 23But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.