1   In the seuenth yeare thou shalt make a remission,

2   which shal be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing of his freind or neighbour and brother, can not aske it againe, because it is the yeare of remission of our Lord.

3   Of the seiourner and stranger thou shalt exact: of thy

Precepts and Iudgements. countrie man and neighbour thou shalt not haue power to require it.

4   And ^note needie person and begger there shal be none among you: that our Lord thy God may blesse thee in the land, which he wil geue thee in possession.

5   Yet so if thou heare the voice of our Lord thy God, and keepe al thinges that he hath bid, and which I command thee this day, he wil blesse thee, as he hath promised.

6   Thou shalt lend to manie nations, and thy selfe shalt borrow of no man. Thou shalt haue dominion ouer verie manie nations, and no man shal haue dominion ouer thee.

7   If one of thy brethren that abideth within the gates of thy citie in the land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee, come to pouertie: thou shalt not harden thy hart, nor close thy hand,

8   but shalt open it to the poore man, and shalt lend him, that which thou perceiuest he hath neede of.

9   Beware lest perhaps an impious cogitation steale in vpon thee, and thou say in thy hart: The seuenth yeare of remission draweth nigh; & turne away thy eies from thy poore brother denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he crie against thee to our Lord, and ^note it become a sinne vnto thee.

10   But thou shalt geue to him: neither shalt thou doe any thing craftely in releuing his necessities: that our Lord thy God may blesse thee at al times, and in al thinges whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.

11   There shal not want poore in the land of thy habitation: therfore I command thee that thou open thy hand to thy needie and poore brother, that liueth in the Land.

12   When thy brother an Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee, and hath serued thee six yeares, in the seuenth yeare, thou shalt let him goe free:

13   and to whom thou geuest freedom, thou shalt in no case suffer him to depart emptie:

14   but geue him his wayfare of thy flockes, and of thy barne floore, and thy presse, wherwith our Lord thy God shal blesse thee.

15   Remember that thy self also didst serue in the Land of Ægypt, and our Lord thy God made thee free, and therfore doe I now command thee.

16   But if he say: I wil not depart: because he loueth thee, and thy house, and feeleth that he is wel with thee:

17   thou shalt take an awle, and bore through his eare in the dore of thy house, and he shal serue thee for euer. to thy woman seruant also thou shalt doe in like maner.

18   Turne not away thine eies from them, when thou makest them free: because he hath serued thee six yeares after the wages of an

Preceptes and Iudgementes. hireling: that our Lord thy God may blesse thee in al the workes that thou doest.

19   Of the first borne, that come forth in thy heardes and sheepe, whatsoeuer is of the male sexe, thou shalt sanctifie to our Lord thy God. Thou shalt not worke with the first borne of an oxe, and thou shalt not sheare the first borne of thy sheepe.

20   In the sight of our Lord thy God shalt thou eate them euerie yeare in the place, that our Lord shal choose, thou and thy house.

21   But if it haue blemish, and be either lame, or blind, or in any part diffigured or feeble, it shal not be immolated to our Lord thy God.

22   but within the gates of thy citie shalt thou eate it: as wel the cleane as the vncleane in like maner shal eate them as the doa, and the hart.

23   This onlie shalt thou obserue, that their bloud thou eate not, but power it out on the earth as water.

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