Deuteronomy 15
1 At the end of every seven years thou shall make a release.
每過七年，應施行豁免。
2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it from his neighbor and his brother, because Jehovah's release has been proclaimed.
豁免的方式是這樣：債主應把借與近人的一切，全部豁免，不應再向近人或兄弟追還，因為已為光榮上主宣佈了豁免。
3 From a foreigner thou may exact it, but whatever of thine is with thy brother, thy hand shall release.
向外邦人可以追還，但你兄弟欠你的應一概豁免。
4 However there shall be no poor with thee (for Jehovah will surely bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God gives thee for an inheritance to possess it),
其實，在你中間不會有窮人，因為在你的天主賜給你作為產業的地上，上主必豐厚地祝福你，
5 if only thou diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.
只要你聽從上主你天主的話，謹守遵行我今日吩咐你的這一切誡命。
6 For Jehovah thy God will bless thee as he promised thee, and thou shall lend to many nations, but thou shall not borrow, and thou shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.
因為你的天主必照他說的，祝福你：你要借給許多民族，而你卻不需要借貸；你要統治許多民族，但他們卻不會統治你。
7 If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother,
如果在上主你的天主賜給你的地內的一座城裏，在你中間有了一個窮人，又是你的兄弟，對這窮苦的兄弟，不可心硬，不可袖手旁觀，
8 but thou shall surely open thy hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants.
應向他伸手，凡他所需要的儘量借給他。
9 Beware that there not be a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nothing, and he cry to Jehovah against thee, and it be sin to thee.
你應提防，不要心生惡念說：「第七年的豁免年快到了! 」就冷眼對待你窮苦的兄弟，不借給他什麼。如果他呼求上主反對你，你應負罪。
10 Thou shall surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou give to him, because for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou put thy hand to.
你應盡量供給他；供給他時，不應傷心，因為為了這事，上主你的天主必在你的一切工作，和你著手所作的一切事上祝福你。
11 For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shall surely open thy hand to thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.
既然在這地上總少不了窮人，為此我吩咐你說：對你地區內困苦貧窮兄弟，你應大方地伸出援助之手。
12 If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to thee, and serves thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shall let him go free from thee.
你的兄弟，無論是希伯來男人，或是希伯來女人，若賣身與你，只應服事你六年，在第七年上，你應使他自由。
13 And when thou let him go free from thee, thou shall not let him go empty.
使他自由時，不可讓他空手離去；
14 Thou shall furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress. As Jehovah thy God has blessed thee thou shall give to him.
應由你羊群中，打禾場上，榨酒池內，取一些厚厚地酬報他，照上主你的天主祝福你的，分給他。
15 And thou shall remember that thou were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee. Therefore I command thee this thing today.
應記得你在埃及地也曾做過奴隸，上主你的天主將你贖回。為此我今日特將這事吩咐你。
16 And it shall be, if he says to thee, I will not go out from thee, because he loves thee and thy house, because he is well with thee,
倘若他對你說：「我不願離開你，」因為他愛你和你的家庭，又喜歡同你在一起，
17 then thou shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be thy servant forever. And also to thy maid-servant thou shall do likewise.
你就拿錐子在門上把他耳朵刺透，他便永遠成了你的奴僕；對你的婢女也該這樣做。
18 It shall not seem hard to thee when thou let him go free from thee, for he has been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years. And Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all that thou do.
使他自由的時候，你不應感到不滿，因為他六年給你服務，應得傭工的雙倍工資，並且上主你的天主也必在你所做的事業上祝福你。
19 All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shall sanctify to Jehovah thy God. Thou shall do no work with the firstling of thy herd, nor shear the firstling of thy flock.
你的牛羊中所生的，凡是頭胎雄性的，都應祝聖與上主你的天主；你不可使頭胎公牛耕作，也不可剪頭胎公羊的毛。
20 Thou shall eat it before Jehovah thy God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou and thy household.
你和你的家屬，年年在上主所選的地方，在上主你的天主面前，吃這些首生的牲畜。
21 And if it has any blemish, as lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, thou shall not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God.
但如果這牲畜有殘缺、或腿瘸、或瞎眼、或有任何缺點、你不可祭獻給上主你的天主，
22 Thou shall eat it within thy gates. The unclean man and the clean man alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
可在家裏吃，不潔與潔淨的，人都可以吃，如吃羚羊和鹿一樣；
23 Only thou shall not eat the blood of it. Thou shall pour it out upon the ground as water.
只不可吃牠的血，應將血如水一樣潑在地上。
