Deuteronomy 15
1 “In the seventh year, you shall perform a remission,
每過七年，應施行豁免。
2 which shall be celebrated according to this order. Anyone to whom anything is owed, by his friend or neighbor or brother, will not be able to request its return, because it is the year of remission of the Lord.
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 the sojourner and the new arrival, you may require its return. From your fellow countryman and neighbor, you will not have the power to request its return.
向外邦人可以追還，但你兄弟欠你的應一概豁免。
4 And there shall not be anyone indigent or begging among you, so that the Lord your God may bless you in the land which he will deliver to you as a possession.
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 But only if you heed the voice of the Lord your God, and keep to all that he has ordered, that which I am entrusting to you this day, will he bless you, just as he has promised.
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 You shall lend money to many nations, and you yourselves shall borrow in return from no one. You shall rule over very many nations, and no one shall rule over you.
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 one of your brothers, who dwells within the gates of your city, in the land which the Lord your God will give to you, falls into poverty, you shall not harden your heart, nor tighten your hand.
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 Instead, you shall open your hand to the poor, and you shall lend to him whatever you perceive him to need.
應向他伸手，凡他所需要的儘量借給他。
9 Take care, lest perhaps an impious thought might creep within you, and you might say in your heart: ‘The seventh year of remission approaches.’ And so you might turn your eyes away from your poor brother, unwilling to lend to him what he has asked. If so, then he may cry out against you to the Lord, and it will be a sin for you.
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 Instead, you shall give to him. Neither shall you do anything craftily while assisting him in his needs, so that the Lord your God may bless you, at all times and in all things to which you will put your hand.
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 The poor will not be absent from the land of your habitation. For this reason, I instruct you to open your hand to your indigent and poor brother, who lives among you in the 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 When your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, has been sold to you, and has served you for six years, in the seventh year you shall set him free.
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 you grant his freedom, you shall by no means permit him to go away empty.
使他自由時，不可讓他空手離去；
14 Instead, you shall give to him, for his journey, from your flocks and threshing floor and winepress, with which the Lord your God has blessed you.
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 Remember that you yourself also served in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God set you free. And therefore, I now command this of you.
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 But if he will say, ‘I am not willing to depart,’ because he loves you and your household, and because he feels that it would be good for him to stay with you,
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 you shall take an awl and pierce his ear, at the door of your house. And he shall serve you even forever. You shall also act similarly toward your woman servant.
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 You should not avert your eyes from them when you set them free, because he has served you for six years, in a manner deserving of the pay of a hired hand. So may the Lord your God bless you in all the works that you 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 Of the firstborn, those born from your herds and sheep, you shall sanctify to the Lord your God whatever is of the male sex. You shall not put the firstborn of the oxen to work, nor shall you shear the firstborn of the sheep.
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 In the sight of the Lord your God, you shall eat these, each year, in the place which the Lord will choose, you and your 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 But if it has a blemish, or is lame, or is blind, or if it is in any part deformed or debilitated, it shall not be immolated to the Lord your 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 Instead, you shall eat it within the gates of your city. The clean as well as the unclean alike shall feed on these, such as the roe deer and the stag.
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 This alone shall you observe: that you do not eat their blood, but pour it upon the ground like water.”
只不可吃牠的血，應將血如水一樣潑在地上。
