the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Deuteronomy 15:1
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“At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
"At the end of seven years you shall grant a remission of debt.
"At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release.
At the end of every seven years, you must tell those who owe you anything that they do not have to pay you back.
At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.
"At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release (remission, pardon) from debt.
"At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts.
At the terme of seuen yeeres thou shalt make a freedome.
"At the end of every seven years you shall grant a remission of debts.
Moses said: Every seven years you must announce, "The Lord says loans do not need to be paid back." Then if you have loaned money to another Israelite, you can no longer ask for payment.
(vi) "At the end of every seven years you are to have a sh'mittah.
At the end of seven years thou shalt make a release,
"At the end of every seven years, you must cancel debts.
AT the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
"At the end of every seventh year you are to cancel the debts of those who owe you money.
At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
In the seueth yeare shalt thou make a Fre yeare. This is ye maner of the Fre yeare.
At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.
At the terme of seuen yeres, thou shalt make a freedome.
At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
At the end of euery seuen yeeres thou shalt make a release.
Every seven years thou shalt make a release.
At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
In the seuenthe yeer thou schalt make remyssioun,
`At the end of seven years thou dost make a release,
At the end of every seven year period you shall make a release.
At the end of [every] seven years thou shalt make a release.
At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
Exodus 21:1-11; Leviticus 25:1-7">[xr] "At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts.
"At the end of every seventh year you must cancel the debts of everyone who owes you money.
"At the end of every seven years you must do away with debts that are owed.
Every seventh year you shall grant a remission of debts.
At the end of seven years, shalt thou make a release.
In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission,
"At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release.
At the end of every seventh year, cancel all debts. This is the procedure: Everyone who has lent money to a neighbor writes it off. You must not press your neighbor or his brother for payment: All-Debts-Are-Canceled— God says so. You may collect payment from foreigners, but whatever you have lent to your fellow Israelite you must write off.
"At the end of every seven years you shall grant a remission of debts.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Deuteronomy 31:10, Exodus 21:2, Exodus 23:10, Exodus 23:11, Leviticus 25:2-4, Isaiah 61:1-3, Jeremiah 36:8-18, Luke 4:18, Luke 4:19
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 15:12 - General Nehemiah 10:31 - the exaction
Cross-References
After these things the word of the LORD came to Avram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Avram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
Avram said, "Lord GOD, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eli`ezer of Dammesek?"
Avram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
Behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."
The LORD brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Avram, "So shall your seed be."
He believed in the LORD; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
He took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.
I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great substance.
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amori is not yet full."
It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. Not of servants, for they were not to be dismissed from their service until they had served six years, as is directed to in a following law; for if they were to be set free whenever a sabbatical year came, they might be discharged when they had not served more than a year, or than half a year, or than a month or two. Indeed when the year of jubilee intervened, they were released be it at what time it would; but not in a sabbatical year, which was a year of release of debts, as the following verses show, as well as there was, then a rest of the land from tillage, Leviticus 25:2. Now this was done at the end or extremity of every seventh year; not at the latter end or extremity of it, for if the debt of a poor man might be exacted of him in the year, and until the end of it, it would not in this respect have been a sabbatical year, or a year of rest and quiet; but this was done at the first extremity of it, at the beginning of it, as Aben Ezra and Ben Melech observe; though Maimonides b asserts it to be after the seven years were ended; for he says,
"the seventh year releaseth not monies but at the end of it,''
according to Deuteronomy 15:1 that as in Deuteronomy 31:10 after seven years is meant, so the release of monies is after seven years.
b Hilchot Shemittah & Yobel, c. 9. sect. 4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The year of release is no doubt identical with the sabbatical year of the earlier legislation (Exodus 23:10 ff, and Leviticus 25:2 ff), the command of the older legislation being here amplified. The release was probably for the year, not total and final, and had reference only to loans lent because of poverty (compare Deuteronomy 15:4, Deuteronomy 15:7). Yet even so the law was found to be too stringent for the avarice of the people, because it was one of those which the rabbis “made of none effect by their traditions.”
Deuteronomy 15:2
Because it is called the Lord’s release - Render, because proclamation has been made of the Lord’s release. The verb is impersonal, and implies (compare Deuteronomy 31:10) that “the solemnity of the year of release” has been publicly announced.
Deuteronomy 15:3
The foreigner would not be bound by the restriction of the sabbatical year, and therefore would have no claim to its special remissions and privileges. He could earn his usual income in the seventh as in other years, and therefore is not exonerated from liability to discharge a debt anymore in the one than the others.
Deuteronomy 15:4
There is no inconsistency between this and Deuteronomy 15:11. The meaning seems simply to be, “Thou must release the debt for the year, except when there be no poor person concerned, a contingency which may happen, for the Lord shall greatly bless thee.” The general object of these precepts, as also of the year of Jubilee and the laws respecting inheritance, is to prevent the total ruin of a needy person, and his disappearance from the families of Israel by the sale of his patrimony.
Deuteronomy 15:9
literally: “Beware that there be not in thy heart a word which is worthlessness” (compare Deuteronomy 13:13 note).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XV
The Sabbatical year of release, 1.
The manner in which this release shall take place, 2-5.
Of lending to the poor, and the disposition in which it should
be done, 6-11.
Of the Hebrew servant who has served six years, and who shall be
dismissed well furnished, 12-15.
The ceremony of boring the ear, when the servant wishes to
continue with his master, 16-18.
Of the firstlings of the flock and herd, 19, 20.
Nothing shall be offered that has any blemish, 21.
The sacrifice to be eaten both by the clean and unclean, except
the blood, which is never to be eaten, but poured out upon the
ground, 22, 23.
NOTES ON CHAP. XV
Verse Deuteronomy 15:1. At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release — For an explanation of many things in this chapter, see the notes on Exodus 21:0 and Exodus 23:0, and Leviticus 25:0
