安息年
1「每逢第七年末，你們要免除他人的債務。 2你們要這樣做，所有債主都要免除同胞所欠的債務，不可向他們追討，因為宣佈免除債務的是耶和華。 3你們可以向外族人討債，但無論同胞欠你什麼債務，都要免除。 4-5只要你們聽從你們上帝耶和華的話，謹遵我今天吩咐你們的誡命，祂必使你們在這片祂賜給你們作產業的土地上蒙福，你們中間不會有窮人。 6你們的上帝耶和華必照祂的應許賜福給你們，你們必借貸給多國，卻不需要向他們借貸。你們必統治多國，卻不被他們統治。
7「在進入你們的上帝耶和華將要賜給你們的土地後，如果你們居住的城中有貧窮的同胞，你們不可硬著心腸拒施援手。 8他們所需要的，你們要慷慨地借給他們。 9你們要謹慎，不可因為免除債務的第七年將近，就心懷惡念，對貧窮同胞冷眼相待，拒施援手。否則，他會求告耶和華，那時你們便有罪了。 10你們要慷慨給予，並且無怨無悔，因為耶和華必在你們所做的一切事上賜福給你們。 11你們居住的地方總會有窮人，所以我吩咐你們要慷慨地幫助貧窮或有需要的同胞。
12「如果你們的希伯來同胞，不論男女，賣身給你們做奴隸，他們要服侍你們六年，到第七年，你們要給他們自由。 13你們不可讓他們空手離去， 14要慷慨地把你們的上帝耶和華賜給你們的羊、五穀和酒分給他們。 15要記住，你們曾在埃及做奴隸，你們的上帝耶和華拯救了你們。所以，我今天吩咐你們這樣做。 16如果你們的奴隸因為愛你們和你們的家人，與你們相處融洽，不願意離去， 17你們就要讓他靠在門上，用錐子在他耳朵上扎個洞，他便終身成為你們的奴隸。對待婢女也要這樣。 18你們釋放奴隸時，不要不情願，因為他們服侍你們六年，所做的是普通雇工的兩倍。而且，你們的上帝耶和華也會在你們所做的一切事上賜福給你們。
頭生的牛羊
19「你們要把頭生的公牛和公羊分別出來，獻給你們的上帝耶和華。不可用頭生的公牛耕田，也不要剪頭生公羊的毛。 20每年，你們全家要去你們的上帝耶和華選定的地方，在祂面前吃這些頭生的牛羊。 21如果這些牛羊有什麼殘疾，如瘸腿、瞎眼或其他殘疾，就不可獻給你們的上帝耶和華。 22要在你們的城裡吃這些牛羊。潔淨的人和不潔淨的人都可以吃，就像吃羚羊和鹿一樣。 23但不可吃牠們的血，要把血倒在地上，像倒水一樣。
The year for cancelling debts
1At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. 2This 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 cancelling debts has been proclaimed. 3You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you. 4However, 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 you, 5if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today. 6For 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.
7If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted towards them. 8Rather, be open-handed and freely lend them whatever they need. 9Be careful not to harbour this wicked thought: ‘The seventh year, the year for cancelling debts, is near,’ so that you do not show ill will towards 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. 10Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. 11There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be open-handed towards your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.
Freeing servants
12If any of your people – Hebrew men or women – sell themselves to you and serve you for six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free. 13And when you release them, do not send them away empty-handed. 14Supply them liberally from your flock, your threshing-floor and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you. 15Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you. That is why I give you this command today.
16But 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, 17then take an awl and push it through his ear lobe into the door, and he will become your servant for life. Do the same for your female servant.
18Do 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
19Set apart for the Lord your God every firstborn male of your herds and flocks. Do not put the firstborn of your oxen to work, and do not shear the firstborn of your sheep. 20Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose. 21If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. 22You 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. 23But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
