1At the end of every seven years, you gotta make a release, no cap.

2Here’s the deal: every lender has to let go of what they owe to their homies; no stressing your bro, it’s the Lord’s release, fr.

3You can still collect from outsiders, but with your bros, you gotta let it slide.

4Unless everyone’s vibing and no one’s poor, 'cause the Lord’s gonna bless you big time in the land He’s giving you, periodt.

5Just make sure you’re listening to the Lord and doing what I’m telling you today, bet.

6The Lord’s gonna bless you like He promised; you’ll be lending to many nations but won’t need to borrow, and you’ll be on top, no cap.

7If you see a poor bro in your area, don’t act sus and shut your heart or hand from him.

8Instead, open your hand wide and lend him what he needs, no questions asked.

9Watch out for that sus thought in your heart saying, “It’s the year of release, I can’t help him,” 'cause if he cries to the Lord, that’s on you.

10You gotta give to him, and don’t feel bad about it; the Lord will bless you in everything you do, fr.

11The poor will always be around, so I’m telling you, keep your hand open for your bros and those in need.

12If a Hebrew bro or sis sells themselves to you and works for six years, let them go free in the seventh year, that’s the move.

13When you send them out, don’t let them bounce empty-handed, that’s just savage.

14Hook them up from your flock and your stuff; whatever the Lord blessed you with, share it.

15Remember, you were a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord redeemed you; that’s why I’m telling you this today.

16If they say, “Nah, I’m staying,” 'cause they love you and your crib, that’s cool.

17Then take an aul and pierce their ear to the door, and they’ll be your forever servant, and do the same for your maidservant.

18Don’t find it hard to send them away free; they’ve worked hard for you, and the Lord will bless you in all you do.

19All the firstborn males from your herd and flock are holy to the Lord; don’t work them or shear them, that’s the law.

20You’ll eat it before the Lord every year at the spot He chooses, you and your fam.

21If there’s any flaw, like being lame or blind, don’t sacrifice it to the Lord, that’s just not right.

22You can eat it within your gates; both clean and unclean can chow down on it, just like the roebuck or the hart.

23But don’t eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water, that’s the rule.

1At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

2And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the Lord’s release.

3Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

4Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:

5Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

6For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

7If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

8But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

9Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

10Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

11For 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.

12And 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.

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

14Thou 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.

15And 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.

16And 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;

17Then thou shalt take an aul, 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.

18It 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.

19All 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.

20Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou and thy household.

21And 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.

22Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

23Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.