Deuteronomy 15
1 At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.
“每逢七年末一年，你要施行豁免。
2 This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD’s release has been proclaimed.
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。
3 Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.
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。
4 However there will be no poor with you (for the LORD will surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess)
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。）
5 if only you diligently listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today.
6 For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.
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。
7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
“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。
8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
总要向他松开手，照他所缺乏的借给他，补他的不足。
9 Beware that there not 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 the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.
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。
10 You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.
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。
11 For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
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。’”
12 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.
“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。
13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.
你任他自由的时候，不可使他空手而去，
14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
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。
15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
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。
16 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,
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，
17 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.
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。
18 It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. The LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.
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。”
19 You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to the LORD your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
“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。
20 You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.
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。
21 If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
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；
22 You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.
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。
23 Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.
只是不可吃它的血；要倒在地上，如同倒水一样。”
