11 For (A)the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall [a]open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’

The Law Concerning Bondservants

12 (B)“If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is (C)sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. 13 And when you [b]send him away free from you, you shall not let him go away empty-handed;

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 15:11 freely open
  2. Deuteronomy 15:13 set him free

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