9 Take heed lest the wicked thought enter into thy heart, 'The seventh year is coming, the year of forgiveness,' and lest thy eye be made unmerciful to thy poor brother, and thou shalt refuse him; for he shall cry out against thee to the Lord, and sin shall be upon thee;

10 And when you give to him, your heart must not be grieved, for therefore the Lord your God will bless you in all your works, and in all that you do with your hands.

11 For the poor shall always be in the midst of [thy] land; Therefore I command you, Open your hand to your brother, to your poor and needy in your land.

12 If thy brother, a Jew, or a Hebrew woman, selleth unto thee, he shall be thy servant six years, and in the seventh year thou shalt set him free from thee.

13 And when thou shalt let him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty-handed,

14 But thou shalt supply him from thy flocks, and from thy threshing-floor, and from thy winepress: thou shalt give him wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

15 Remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God delivered you: therefore I command you this this day.

16 But if he says to you, 'I will not depart from you, because I love you and your house,' because it is good for him with you,

17 then thou shalt take an awl, and pierce his ear to the door; and he shall be thy servant for ever. Do the same with your servant.

18 Do not consider it grievous for yourself that you should let him go free from you, for in six years he earned you twice as much as the wages of a hireling; and the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.

19 Thou shalt consecrate to the LORD thy God every firstborn male that is born of thy herd, and of thy flock.

20 In the sight of the LORD thy God, thou shalt eat these things every year, and thou shalt eat thy family, in the place which the LORD [thy God] shall choose.

21 And if there be any blemish, or lameness, or blindness, or any other blemish, thou shalt not offer it as an offering to the LORD thy God,

22 but in thy gates thou shalt eat it; the unclean as well as the clean [can eat,] like a chamois and like a deer;