For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land (15:11)

[And] if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee (15:12)

And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: (15:13)

Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him (15:14)

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day (15:15)

And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; (15:16)

Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust [it] through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise (15:17)

It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant [to thee], in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest (15:18)

All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep (15:19)

Thou shalt eat [it] before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou and thy household (15:20)

And if there be [any] blemish therein, [as if it be] lame, or blind, [or have] any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God (15:21)

Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean [person shall eat it] alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart (15:22)

Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water (15:23)

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