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7년마다 빚을 면제해 주는 규정

15 “여러분은 7년마다 그 해 연말에 여러분이 받을 빚을 다 면제해 주십시오.

그 면제의 규정은 다음과 같습니다: 자기 동족에게 돈을 빌려 준 사람은 그 빚을 면제해 주고 그것을 억지로 받으려고 독촉하지 마십시오. 여호와께서는 이 해가 되면 모든 빚이 면제된다고 선언하셨습니다.

여러분이 외국인에게는 빚을 갚으라고 독촉할 수 있습니다. 그러나 여러분의 동족에게는 그 빚을 면제해 주어야 합니다.

4-5 여러분이 만일 여러분의 하나님 여호와 께 순종하고 내가 오늘 여러분에게 명령하는 이 모든 것을 충실히 지키기만 하면 여러분의 하나님 여호와께서 여러분에게 주신 땅에서 여러분이 복을 받아 여러분 중에 가난한 자가 하나도 없을 것입니다.

여러분의 하나님 여호와께서 약속하신 대로 여러분에게 복을 주셔서 여러분이 많은 나라에 돈을 빌려 주기는 해도 빌리지는 않을 것이며 여러분이 여러 나라를 통치하는 일은 있어도 지배받는 일은 없을 것입니다.

“여러분의 하나님 여호와께서 여러분에게 주신 땅의 어느 성에서든지 여러분 가운데 가난한 사람이 있으면 그를 너무 인색하게 대하지 말고

그에게 필요한 것을 빌려 주십시오.

빚이 면제되는 해가 가까웠다고 해서 악한 마음을 품고 가난한 사람에게 빌려 주는 것을 거절하지 마십시오. 여러분이 만일 몰인정하게 아무것도 빌려 주지 않으면 그가 여러분에 대하여 여호와께 호소할 것이며 그것이 여러분에게 죄가 될 것입니다.

10 여러분은 아낌없이 도와주고 인색한 마음을 품지 마십시오. 그러면 여러분의 하나님 여호와께서 여러분이 하는 모든 일에 복을 주실 것입니다.

11 여러분 중에는 언제나 가난한 사람이 있기 마련입니다. 그래서 내가 여러분에게 가난한 사람을 아낌없이 도와주라고 명령하는 것입니다.”

종에 관한 규정

12 “만일 여러분의 동족이 남자든 여자든 종으로 팔려와서 6년 동안 여러분을 섬기면 7년째 되는 해에는 그를 자유의 몸이 되게 하십시오.

13 그리고 그를 보낼 때에는 빈손으로 보내지 말고

14 여러분의 하나님 여호와께서 복을 주신 대로 양이나 곡식이나 포도주를 후하게 주십시오.

15 여러분은 이집트에서 종살이하던 것과 여러분의 하나님 여호와께서 여러분을 구출하신 일을 기억하십시오. 그래서 내가 오늘 여러분에게 이렇게 명령하는 것입니다.

16 “그러나 만일 여러분의 종이 떠나기를 싫어하고 여러분과 여러분의 가족을 사랑하여 계속 머물러 있기를 원한다면

17 그를 문에 기대 서게 하고 송곳으로 그 귀를 뚫으십시오. 그러면 그가 평생 여러분의 종이 될 것입니다. 그리고 여러분의 여종에게도 그렇게 하십시오.

18 여러분의 종은 6년 동안 일반 품꾼에 비해 두 배의 일을 하였으므로 그 종을 자유롭게 놓아 주는 것을 억울하게 생각하지 마십시오. 그러면 여러분의 하나님 여호와께서 여러분이 하는 모든 일에 복을 주실 것입니다.”

짐승의 첫새끼에 관한 규정

19 “여러분은 소나 양의 첫새끼 중에서 수컷을 구별하여 여러분의 하나님 여호와께 드리십시오. 소의 첫새끼는 일을 시키지 말고 양의 첫새끼는 털을 깎지 말아야 합니다.

20 여러분은 매년 여러분의 가족과 함께 여호와 하나님이 예배처로 지정하신 곳으로 가서 그 짐승을 여호와 앞에서 잡아먹도록 하십시오.

21 그러나 그 짐승이 절뚝거리거나 눈이 멀었거나 그 밖의 다른 흠이 있으면 여러분의 하나님 여호와께 제물로 바치지 말고

22 여러분의 성에서 그것을 잡아먹도록 하십시오. 이것도 노루와 사슴을 먹을 때와 마찬가지로 깨끗한 자나 부정한 자나 다 같이 먹을 수 있습니다.

23 그러나 피는 먹지 말고 물처럼 땅에 쏟아 버리십시오.”

The Year for Canceling Debts(A)

15 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.(B) This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed. You may require payment from a foreigner,(C) but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you. However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless(D) you, if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow(E) all these commands I am giving you today. For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.(F)

If anyone is poor(G) among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted(H) toward them. Rather, be openhanded(I) and freely lend them whatever they need. Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts,(J) is near,” so that you do not show ill will(K) toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.(L) 10 Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart;(M) then because of this the Lord your God will bless(N) you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. 11 There will always be poor people(O) in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.(P)

Freeing Servants(Q)(R)

12 If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free.(S) 13 And when you release them, do not send them away empty-handed. 14 Supply them liberally from your flock, your threshing floor(T) and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you. 15 Remember that you were slaves(U) in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you.(V) That is why I give you this command today.

16 But if your servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family and is well off with you, 17 then take an awl and push it through his earlobe into the door, and he will become your servant for life. Do the same for your female servant.

18 Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

The Firstborn Animals

19 Set apart for the Lord(W) your God every firstborn male(X) of your herds and flocks.(Y) Do not put the firstborn of your cows to work, and do not shear the firstborn of your sheep.(Z) 20 Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose.(AA) 21 If an animal has a defect,(AB) is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.(AC) 22 You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer.(AD) 23 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.(AE)

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

And 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.

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

Save 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:

Only 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.

For 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.

If 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:

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

Beware 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.

10 Thou 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.

11 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.

12 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.

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

14 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 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.

16 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;

17 Then 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.

18 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.

19 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.

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

21 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.

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

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