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<p><span class="passage-display-bcv">Deuteronomy 15</span> <span class="passage-display-version">New Living Translation (NLT)</span></p>
<h3><span class="text Deut-15-1" id="en-NLT-5297">Release for Debtors</span></h3>
<p class="first-line-none chapter-2"><span class="text Deut-15-1"><span class="chapternum">15 </span>“At the end of every seventh year you must cancel the debts of everyone who owes you money.…</span> <span class="text Deut-15-2" id="en-NLT-5298"></span></p>
<p><span class="passage-display-bcv">Deuteronomy 15</span> <span class="passage-display-version">New Living Translation (NLT)</span></p>
<h3><span class="text Deut-15-1" id="en-NLT-5297">Release for Debtors</span></h3>
<p class="first-line-none chapter-2"><span class="text Deut-15-1"><span class="chapternum">15 </span>“At the end of every seventh year you must cancel the debts of everyone who owes you money.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-2" id="en-NLT-5298"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">2 </font></sup>This is how it must be done. Everyone must cancel the loans they have made to their fellow Israelites. They must not demand payment from their neighbors or relatives, for the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>’s time of release has arrived.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-3" id="en-NLT-5299"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">3 </font></sup>This release from debt, however, applies only to your fellow Israelites—not to the foreigners living among you.</span></p>
<p><span class="text Deut-15-4" id="en-NLT-5300"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">4 </font></sup>“There should be no poor among you, for the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God will greatly bless you in the land he is giving you as a special possession.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-5" id="en-NLT-5301"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">5 </font></sup>You will receive this blessing if you are careful to obey all the commands of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God that I am giving you today.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-6" id="en-NLT-5302"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">6 </font></sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God will bless you as he has promised. You will lend money to many nations but will never need to borrow. You will rule many nations, but they will not rule over you.</span></p>
<p><span class="text Deut-15-7" id="en-NLT-5303"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">7 </font></sup>“But if there are any poor Israelites in your towns when you arrive in the land the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tightfisted toward them.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-8" id="en-NLT-5304"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">8 </font></sup>Instead, be generous and lend them whatever they need.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-9" id="en-NLT-5305"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">9 </font></sup>Do not be mean-spirited and refuse someone a loan because the year for canceling debts is close at hand. If you refuse to make the loan and the needy person cries out to the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, you will be considered guilty of sin.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-10" id="en-NLT-5306"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">10 </font></sup>Give generously to the poor, not grudgingly, for the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God will bless you in everything you do.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-11" id="en-NLT-5307"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">11 </font></sup>There will always be some in the land who are poor. That is why I am commanding you to share freely with the poor and with other Israelites in need.</span></p>
<h3><span class="text Deut-15-12" id="en-NLT-5308">Release for Hebrew Slaves</span></h3>
<p class="first-line-none"><span class="text Deut-15-12"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">12 </font></sup>“If a fellow Hebrew sells himself or herself to be your servant<sup class="footnote"><font size="2">[</font><a title="See footnote a" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+15&version=NLT;MSG#fen-NLT-5308a">a</a><font size="2">]</font></sup> and serves you for six years, in the seventh year you must set that servant free.</span></p>
<p><span class="text Deut-15-13" id="en-NLT-5309"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">13 </font></sup>“When you release a male servant, do not send him away empty-handed.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-14" id="en-NLT-5310"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">14 </font></sup>Give him a generous farewell gift from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. Share with him some of the bounty with which the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God has blessed you.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-15" id="en-NLT-5311"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">15 </font></sup>Remember that you were once slaves in the land of Egypt and the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God redeemed you! That is why I am giving you this command.</span></p>
<p><span class="text Deut-15-16" id="en-NLT-5312"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">16 </font></sup>“But suppose your servant says, ‘I will not leave you,’ because he loves you and your family, and he has done well with you.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-17" id="en-NLT-5313"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">17 </font></sup>In that case, take an awl and push it through his earlobe into the door. After that, he will be your servant for life. And do the same for your female servants.</span></p>
<p><span class="text Deut-15-18" id="en-NLT-5314"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">18 </font></sup>“You must not consider it a hardship when you release your servants. Remember that for six years they have given you services worth double the wages of hired workers, and the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God will bless you in all you do.</span></p>
<h3><span class="text Deut-15-19" id="en-NLT-5315">Sacrificing Firstborn Male Animals</span></h3>
<p class="first-line-none"><span class="text Deut-15-19"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">19 </font></sup>“You must set aside for the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God all the firstborn males from your flocks and herds. Do not use the firstborn of your herds to work your fields, and do not shear the firstborn of your flocks.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-20" id="en-NLT-5316"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">20 </font></sup>Instead, you and your family must eat these animals in the presence of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God each year at the place he chooses.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-21" id="en-NLT-5317"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">21 </font></sup>But if this firstborn animal has any defect, such as lameness or blindness, or if anything else is wrong with it, you must not sacrifice it to the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-22" id="en-NLT-5318"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">22 </font></sup>Instead, use it for food for your family in your hometown. Anyone, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat it, just as anyone may eat a gazelle or deer.</span> <span class="text Deut-15-23" id="en-NLT-5319"><sup class="versenum"><font size="2">23 </font></sup>But you must not consume the blood. You must pour it out on the ground like water.</span></p>
<div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4>
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<li id="fen-NLT-5308a"><a title="Go to Deuteronomy 15:12" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+15&version=NLT;MSG#en-NLT-5308">15:12</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>If a Hebrew man or woman is sold to you.</i></span></li>
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