安息年

15 “每逢第七年末,你们要免除他人的债务。 你们要这样做,所有债主都要免除同胞所欠的债务,不可向他们追讨,因为宣布免除债务的是耶和华。 你们可以向外族人讨债,但无论同胞欠你什么债务,都要免除。 4-5 只要你们听从你们上帝耶和华的话,谨遵我今天吩咐你们的诫命,祂必使你们在这片祂赐给你们作产业的土地上蒙福,你们中间不会有穷人。 你们的上帝耶和华必照祂的应许赐福给你们,你们必借贷给多国,却不需要向他们借贷。你们必统治多国,却不被他们统治。

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The Year for Canceling Debts(A)

15 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.(B) This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed. You may require payment from a foreigner,(C) but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you. However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless(D) you, if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow(E) all these commands I am giving you today. For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.(F)

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