申命记 15
1 “每逢七年末一年，你要施行豁免。
At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
2 豁免的定例乃是这样：凡债主要把所借给邻舍的豁免了；不可向邻舍和弟兄追讨，因为耶和华的豁免年已经宣告了。
This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Jehovah's release has been proclaimed.
3 若借给外邦人，你可以向他追讨；但借给你弟兄，无论是什么，你要松手豁免了。
Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.
4 你若留意听从耶和华—你 神的话，谨守遵行我今日所吩咐你这一切的命令，就必在你们中间没有穷人了（在耶和华—你 神所赐你为业的地上，耶和华必大大赐福与你。）
However there shall be no poor with you; (for Jehovah will surely bless you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it; )
if only you diligently listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
6 因为耶和华—你的 神必照他所应许你的赐福与你。你必借给许多国民，却不致向他们借贷；你必管辖许多国民，他们却不能管辖你。
For Jehovah your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
7 “在耶和华—你 神所赐你的地上，无论哪一座城里，你弟兄中若有一个穷人，你不可忍着心、揝着手不帮补你穷乏的弟兄。
If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
8 总要向他松开手，照他所缺乏的借给他，补他的不足。
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
9 你要谨慎，不可心里起恶念，说：‘第七年的豁免年快到了’，你便恶眼看你穷乏的弟兄，什么都不给他，以致他因你求告耶和华，罪便归于你了。
Be careful lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand"; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Jehovah against you, and it be sin to you.
10 你总要给他，给他的时候心里不可愁烦；因耶和华—你的 神必在你这一切所行的，并你手里所办的事上，赐福与你。
You must surely give to him, and your heart is not to be grieved when you give to him; because for this thing Jehovah your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.
11 原来那地上的穷人永不断绝；所以我吩咐你说：‘总要向你地上困苦穷乏的弟兄松开手。’”
For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
12 “你弟兄中，若有一个希伯来男人或希伯来女人被卖给你，服事你六年，到第七年就要任他自由出去。
If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
13 你任他自由的时候，不可使他空手而去，
When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
14 要从你羊群、禾场、酒榨之中多多地给他；耶和华—你的 神怎样赐福与你，你也要照样给他。
you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress, in proportion as Jehovah your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
15 要记念你在埃及地作过奴仆，耶和华—你的 神将你救赎；因此，我今日吩咐你这件事。
You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.
16 他若对你说：‘我不愿意离开你’，是因他爱你和你的家，且因在你那里很好，
It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you"; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
17 你就要拿锥子将他的耳朵在门上刺透，他便永为你的奴仆了。你待婢女也要这样。
then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
18 你任他自由的时候，不可以为难事，因他服事你六年，较比雇工的工价多加一倍了。耶和华—你的 神就必在你所做的一切事上赐福与你。”
It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you do.
19 “你牛群羊群中头生的，凡是公的，都要分别为圣，归耶和华—你的 神。牛群中头生的，不可用它耕地；羊群中头生的，不可剪毛。
All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Jehovah your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
20 这头生的，你和你的家属，每年要在耶和华所选择的地方，在耶和华—你 神面前吃。
You shall eat it before Jehovah your God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, you and your household.
21 这头生的若有什么残疾，就如瘸腿的、瞎眼的，无论有什么恶残疾，都不可献给耶和华—你的 神；
If it has any blemish, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Jehovah your God.
22 可以在你城里吃；洁净人与不洁净人都可以吃，就如吃羚羊与鹿一般。
You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the deer.
23 只是不可吃它的血；要倒在地上，如同倒水一样。”
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
