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This is how the release is to be done: Every creditor is to release[a] what he has loaned to his neighbor. He must not exact it from his neighbor or from his brother Israelite, because the Lord’s release has been proclaimed. You may exact it from a foreigner, but your hand is to release whatever your brother Israelite owes you.[b]

However, there should be no poor people among you, because the Lord will greatly bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance for you to possess,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 15:2 Or forgive
  2. Deuteronomy 15:3 It is not certain if the creditor is to forgive the debt permanently or to suspend repayment during the year in which there is no harvest.