At the end of seven years, you are to make shemitah.

And this is the statement of shemitah: suspend every creditor’s hand from his loan to his neighbor; he will not claim [it] from his neighbor or his brother because it was proclaimed shemitah to [before] Adonoy.

You should demand payment from the stranger [foreigner], but what you have with your brother your hand will relinquish.

End it [poverty], so that there will be no one, destitute among you when Adonoy will surely bless you in the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you as territory to inherit.

Only if you will listen to [heed] the voice [word] of Adonoy, your God, to guard to fulfill this entire mitzvah that I am commanding you today.

When Adonoy, your God, blesses you just as He told you, you will grant loans to nations but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but over you they will not rule.

If there should be someone destitute in your midst among one of your brothers in one of your cities, in your land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you; do not harden your heart and do not close your hand against your destitute brother.

Rather, you must surely open your hand generously to him, and you must surely extend a loan to him to cover the wants [the measure of that] which he lacks.

Look out for yourself lest there be an evil thought in your mind, saying, ‘‘The seventh year is approaching, the shemitah year,’’ and you will look askance at your destitute brother and will not give him; and if he cries out concerning you to Adonoy, you will be regarded as sinful.

You must surely give him, and let your heart not hurt when you give him; for, as a consequence of this thing, Adonoy, your God, will bless you in all your work and in all your commerce.

For the destitute will not cease to exist within the land; therefore I am commanding you saying, ‘‘Open your hand generously to your brother, to your indigent, and to your destitute in your land.’’

If your brother—Jew or Jewess—is sold to you and he serves you six years; then in the seventh year you are to send him free from you.

When you send him [a] free [man] from you, do not send him away empty-handed.

You must surely present him with a severance bonus from your flocks, and from your threshing area, and your wine cellar, whatever Adonoy, your God, has blessed you with are you to give him.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and Adonoy, your God, redeemed you; that is why I am commanding you this matter today.

Should he say to you, ‘‘I am not leaving you;’’ because he loves you and [the members of] your household, for he has it good with you.

Take the awl and put it through his ear and the door, and he will become your perpetual slave [ministering servant]. And do the same to your maid-servant as well.

Let it not seem difficult to you when you send him [a] free [man] from you, for double [two for one] the profit produced by the wage earner has he worked for you six years; and Adonoy, your God, will bless you in everything you do.

Every firstborn that is born in your cattle, and in your flocks—a male—you must consecrate to Adonoy, your God; you may not work with your first-born ox, or shear the first-born of your flocks.

Before Adonoy, your God, you must eat it, each year, in the place that Adonoy chooses, you and [the members of] your household.

And if it has a blemish—if it is crippled or blind—or has any severe blemish, do not slaughter it to Adonoy, your God.

In your cities may you eat it; the ritually unclean and the clean together, like the [meat of the] deer and the gazelle.

Only, do not eat its blood; spill it like water on the ground.