Deuteronomy 15:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Every seventh year you shall grant a remission of debts.

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:31

and if the peoples of the land bring in merchandise or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy it from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day, and we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

Exodus 21:2

“When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, but in the seventh he shall go out a free person, without debt.

Jeremiah 34:14

“Every seventh year each of you must set free any Hebrews who have been sold to you and have served you six years; you must set them free from your service.” But your ancestors did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.

Deuteronomy 15:2

And this is the manner of the remission: every creditor shall remit the claim that is held against a neighbor, not exacting it, because the Lord’s remission has been proclaimed.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful that you do not entertain a mean thought, thinking, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and therefore view your needy neighbor with hostility and give nothing; your neighbor might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Moses commanded them, “Every seventh year, in the scheduled year of remission, during the Festival of Booths,