Deuteronomy 15:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, for the Lord's release is proclaimed.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Jehovah’s release hath been proclaimed.

Common English Bible

² This is how the cancellation is to be handled: Creditors will forgive the loans of their fellow Israelites. They won’t demand repayment from their neighbors or their relatives because the LORD’s year of debt cancellation has been announced.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again: because it is the year of remission of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 15:2 Cross References

Nehemiah 10:31

and if the peoples of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day: and that we would forgo the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Isaiah 58:3

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find your own pleasure, and exact all your labours.

Matthew 6:12

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Luke 7:42

When they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?

Deuteronomy 15:1

At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

Deuteronomy 15:3

Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it: but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thine hand shall release.

Deuteronomy 31:10

And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

James 2:13

For judgement is without mercy to him that hath shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgement.