“When your brother is sold to you, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, and shall serve you six years, then let him go free from you in the seventh year.
“These are the right-rulings which you are to set before them:
“At the end of seven years each one should set free his Hebrew brother, who has been sold to him. And when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you.” But your fathers did not obey Me nor incline their ear.
“At the end of every seven years you make a release of debts.
“And when you send him away free from you, let him not go away empty-handed.