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Deuteronomy Chapter 15

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Deuteronomy

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In this chapter God tells the people that debts to enemies must be forgiven and slaves must be released, and that no one should be forced to pay debts to strangers. The focus is on compassion and the removal of burdens that would cause suffering. The passage emphasizes that the law seeks to protect the vulnerable and promote peace.

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(1) At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
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Deuteronomy 31:10Exodus 21:2Exodus 23:10Exodus 23:11Leviticus 25:2Leviticus 25:3Leviticus 25:4Isaiah 61:1Isaiah 61:2Isaiah 61:3Jeremiah 36:8Jeremiah 36:9

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Deuteronomy 15:2

(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.
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Nehemiah 5:7Nehemiah 5:8Nehemiah 5:9Nehemiah 5:10Nehemiah 5:11Isaiah 58:3Amos 8:4Amos 8:5Amos 8:6Matthew 6:12Matthew 6:14Matthew 6:15

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John 18:39Exodus 22:9Leviticus 25:14Exodus 11:2Leviticus 6:2Deuteronomy 19:5

(3) Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
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Deuteronomy 23:20Exodus 22:25Matthew 17:25Matthew 17:26John 8:35I Corinthians 6:6I Corinthians 6:7Galatians 6:10

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Deuteronomy 30:20Deuteronomy 15:2Revelation 3:18

(4) Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
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Deuteronomy 14:29Deuteronomy 28:1Deuteronomy 28:2Deuteronomy 28:3Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:5Deuteronomy 28:6Deuteronomy 28:7Deuteronomy 28:8Deuteronomy 28:11Proverbs 11:24Proverbs 11:25

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Judges 11:24Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Psalms 28:9Psalms 115:12

(5) Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
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Deuteronomy 4:9Deuteronomy 11:13Deuteronomy 11:14Deuteronomy 11:15Deuteronomy 28:1Deuteronomy 28:2Deuteronomy 28:3Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:5Deuteronomy 28:6Deuteronomy 28:7Deuteronomy 28:8

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Deuteronomy 28:1Deuteronomy 28:13Deuteronomy 28:15Deuteronomy 11:13Deuteronomy 13:18I Kings 11:38

(6) For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
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Deuteronomy 28:12Deuteronomy 28:44Psalms 37:21Psalms 37:26Psalms 112:5Proverbs 22:7Luke 6:35Deuteronomy 28:13I Kings 4:21I Kings 4:24II Chronicles 9:26Ezra 4:20

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Judges 9:2I Kings 1:13Ezra 4:6Daniel 6:28I Corinthians 4:8

(7) If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
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Deuteronomy 15:9Proverbs 21:13Matthew 18:30James 2:15James 2:16I John 3:16I John 3:17

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Deuteronomy 24:14Nehemiah 13:19Deuteronomy 15:11Psalms 10:9Psalms 35:10Proverbs 14:31

(8) But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
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Jeremiah 44:25

(9) Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
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Proverbs 4:23Jeremiah 17:10Matthew 15:19Mark 7:21Mark 7:22Romans 7:8Romans 7:9James 4:5Deuteronomy 28:54Deuteronomy 28:55Deuteronomy 28:56Proverbs 23:6

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Luke 6:42Job 34:28Proverbs 21:13Philippians 3:2Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34

(10) Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
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Matthew 25:40Acts 20:35Romans 12:8II Corinthians 9:5II Corinthians 9:6II Corinthians 9:7I Timothy 6:18I Timothy 6:19I Peter 4:11Deuteronomy 15:4Deuteronomy 14:19Deuteronomy 14:29

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Deuteronomy 16:15Jeremiah 44:25Psalms 103:22Psalms 115:12Isaiah 59:6Galatians 2:16

(11) For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
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Proverbs 22:2Matthew 26:11Mark 14:7John 12:8Deuteronomy 15:8Matthew 5:42Luke 12:33Acts 2:45Acts 4:32Acts 4:33Acts 4:34Acts 4:35

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Psalms 35:10Proverbs 31:9Deuteronomy 15:7Psalms 10:9Psalms 72:13Proverbs 14:31

(12) And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
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Deuteronomy 15:1Exodus 21:2Exodus 21:3Exodus 21:4Exodus 21:5Exodus 21:6Leviticus 25:39Leviticus 25:40Leviticus 25:41Jeremiah 34:14John 8:35John 8:36

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Exodus 21:2Jeremiah 34:14Jeremiah 34:9Joshua 24:15Judges 9:28

(13) And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
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Genesis 31:42Exodus 3:21Leviticus 25:42Leviticus 25:43Leviticus 25:44Proverbs 3:27Proverbs 3:28Jeremiah 22:13Malachi 3:5Colossians 4:1

(14) Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
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Nehemiah 8:10Psalms 68:10Proverbs 10:22Acts 20:35I Corinthians 16:2

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Ezekiel 34:8Ezekiel 34:10Zechariah 11:7

(15) And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
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Deuteronomy 5:14Deuteronomy 5:15Deuteronomy 16:12Exodus 20:2Isaiah 51:1Matthew 6:14Matthew 6:15Matthew 18:32Matthew 18:33Ephesians 1:7Ephesians 2:12Ephesians 4:32

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Deuteronomy 24:18Deuteronomy 24:22Deuteronomy 16:12Ezekiel 16:4Leviticus 26:42

(16) And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
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Exodus 21:5Exodus 21:6Psalms 40:6Psalms 40:8

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II Kings 4:26

(17) Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
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Leviticus 25:39Leviticus 25:40Leviticus 25:41Leviticus 25:42I Samuel 1:22

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Exodus 21:6Ezekiel 41:3

(18) It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
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Isaiah 16:14Isaiah 21:16Luke 17:7Luke 17:8

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Psalms 115:12Revelation 18:6

(19) All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
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Exodus 13:2Exodus 13:12Exodus 34:19Leviticus 27:26Numbers 3:13Numbers 18:17Romans 8:29Hebrews 12:23Deuteronomy 12:5Deuteronomy 12:6Deuteronomy 12:7Deuteronomy 12:17

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Numbers 18:17Leviticus 27:26Exodus 34:19Ezekiel 34:8Exodus 13:12Deuteronomy 33:17

(20) Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
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Deuteronomy 12:5Deuteronomy 12:6Deuteronomy 12:7Deuteronomy 12:17

(21) And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
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Deuteronomy 17:1Leviticus 22:20Leviticus 22:24Malachi 1:7Malachi 1:8

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Numbers 6:14Leviticus 22:21Leviticus 21:18II Samuel 5:8Matthew 15:14Leviticus 14:10

(22) Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
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Deuteronomy 12:15Deuteronomy 12:21Deuteronomy 12:22

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Leviticus 20:25Deuteronomy 12:15Deuteronomy 12:22Leviticus 5:2Numbers 19:19Numbers 19:22

(23) Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
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Deuteronomy 12:16Deuteronomy 12:23Leviticus 7:26I Samuel 14:32Ezekiel 33:25

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Isaiah 44:3

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