over many nations,but they shall not reign over thee.
[7] If there be among you a poor man of one of thy
brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden
thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
[8] But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him,
and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
[9] Beware that there be not a
thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be
evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it
be sin unto thee.
[10] Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest
unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that
thou puttest thine hand unto.
[11] For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command
thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy
land.
[12] And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman , be sold unto thee, and serve thee
six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
[13] And when thou sendest him
out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
[14] Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy
flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed
thee thou shalt give unto him.
[15] And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of
Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
[16] And it
shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because
he is well with thee;
[17] Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he
shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
[18] It shall not seem
hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant
to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
[19] All
the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou
shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
[20] Thou shalt eat it
before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
[21]
And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice
it unto the LORD thy God.
[22] Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall
eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
[23] Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour
it upon the ground as water.
Deut.16
[1] Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib
the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
[2] Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover
unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place
his name there.
[3] Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread
therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou
mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
[4] And
there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there anything
of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
[5] Thou mayest
not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
[6] But at the
place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover
at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
[7] And thou
shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning,
and go unto thy tents.
[8] Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a
solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
[9] Seven weeks shalt thou number
unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the
corn.
[10] And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering
of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed
thee:
[11] And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and
thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the
fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to
place his name there.
[12] And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt
observe and do these statutes.
[13] Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that
thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
[14] And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son,