Deuteronomy 15 At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts. ² This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD's release has been proclaimed. ³ You may exact payment from a foreigner, but cancel whatever your brother owes you. ⁴ However there shall be no poor among you, for the LORD will surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it ⁵ If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today. ⁶ For the LORD your God will bless you as he promised you and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. ⁷ "If there should be a poor man among your relatives in one of the cities of the land that the LORD your God is about to give you, don't be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your poor relative. ⁸ But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of. ⁹ "Be careful not to think this wicked thought to yourselves: 'The seventh year, the year of remission, is drawing near,' and you show ill will toward your poor relative and not give to him. He may then call to the LORD on account of you, and you will be guilty of sin. ¹⁰ You must surely give to him, and your heart must not be grieved when you give to him, because for this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to. ¹¹ For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land. ¹² "When a fellow Hebrew male or female slave is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you shall set them free. ¹³ But when you set them free, don't send them away empty-handed. ¹⁴ "Supply him liberally from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat. Give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you. ¹⁵ "Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this today! ¹⁶ And it will be, if he says to you, I will not go out from you, because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you, ¹⁷ then take an awl and pierce through his earlobe into the door. Then he will be your slave forever. You may do the same for your female slaves. ¹⁸ "It should not seem hard to you when you set him free. After all he has given you six years with double the service of a hired man. the LORD your God will bless you in whatever you do. ¹⁹ "Set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male among your herd and flock. You must not put the firstborn of your ox to work or shear the firstborn of your flock. ²⁰ »You and your household shall eat it every year before the LORD your God in the place the LORD chooses. ²¹ If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. ²² »Eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as a gazelle or a deer. ²³ Only you must not eat its blood. Pour it on the ground like water."