Deuteronomy 15-17
The Message
2This is the procedure： Everyone who has lent money to a neighbor writes it off. You must not press your neighbor or his brother for payment： All-Debts-Are-Canceled—GOD says so.
3You may collect payment from foreigners, but whatever you have lent to your fellow Israelite you must write off.
4There must be no poor people among you because GOD is going to bless you lavishly in this land that GOD, your God, is giving you as an inheritance, your very own land.
5But only if you listen obediently to the Voice of GOD, your God, diligently observing every commandment that I command you today.
6Oh yes—GOD, your God, will bless you just as he promised. You will lend to many nations but won't borrow from any; you'll rule over many nations but none will rule over you.
7When you happen on someone who's in trouble or needs help among your people with whom you live in this land that GOD, your God, is giving you, don't look the other way pretending you don't see him. Don't keep a tight grip on your purse.
9Don't count the cost. Don't listen to that selfish voice saying, "It's almost the seventh year, the year of All-Debts-Are-Canceled," and turn aside and leave your needy neighbor in the lurch, refusing to help him. He'll call GOD's attention to you and your blatant sin.
10Give freely and spontaneously. Don't have a stingy heart. The way you handle matters like this triggers GOD, your God's, blessing in everything you do, all your work and ventures.
11There are always going to be poor and needy people among you. So I command you： Always be generous, open purse and hands, give to your neighbors in trouble, your poor and hurting neighbors.
12If a Hebrew man or Hebrew woman was sold to you and has served you for six years, in the seventh year you must set him or her free, released into a free life.
14Provide them with some animals, plenty of bread and wine and oil. Load them with provisions from all the blessings with which GOD, your God, has blessed you.
15Don't for a minute forget that you were once slaves in Egypt and GOD, your God, redeemed you from that slave world. For that reason, this day I command you to do this.
16But if your slave, because he loves you and your family and has a good life with you, says, "I don't want to leave you,"
17then take an awl and pierce through his earlobe into the doorpost, marking him as your slave forever. Do the same with your women slaves who want to stay with you.
18Don't consider this an unreasonable hardship, this setting your slave free. After all, he's worked six years for you at half the cost of a hired hand. Believe me, GOD, your God, will bless you in everything you do.
19Consecrate to GOD, your God, all the firstborn males in your herds and flocks. Don't use the firstborn from your herds as work animals; don't shear the firstborn from your flocks.
20These are for you to eat every year, you and your family, in the Presence of GOD, your God, at the place that GOD designates for worship.
21If the animal is defective, lame, say, or blind—anything wrong with it—don't slaughter it as a sacrifice to GOD, your God.
22Stay at home and eat it there. Both the ritually clean and unclean may eat it, the same as with a gazelle or a deer.
16Observe the month of Abib by celebrating the Passover to GOD, your God. It was in the month of Abib that GOD, your God, delivered you by night from Egypt.
2Offer the Passover-Sacrifice to GOD, your God, at the place GOD chooses to be worshiped by establishing his name there.
3Don't eat yeast bread with it; for seven days eat it with unraised bread, hard-times bread, because you left Egypt in a hurry—that bread will keep the memory fresh of how you left Egypt for as long as you live.
4There is to be no sign of yeast anywhere for seven days. And don't let any of the meat that you sacrifice in the evening be left over until morning.
6other than the one GOD, your God, designates for worship; there and there only you will offer the Passover-Sacrifice at evening as the sun goes down, marking the time that you left Egypt.
7Boil and eat it at the place designated by GOD, your God. Then, at daybreak, turn around and go home.
10Celebrate the Feast-of-Weeks to GOD, your God, by bringing your Freewill-Offering—give as generously as GOD, your God, has blessed you.
11Rejoice in the Presence of GOD, your God： you, your son, your daughter, your servant, your maid, the Levite who lives in your neighborhood, the foreigner, the orphan and widow among you; rejoice at the place GOD, your God, will set aside to be worshiped.
13Observe the Feast-of-Booths for seven days when you gather the harvest from your threshing-floor and your wine-vat.
14Rejoice at your festival： you, your son, your daughter, your servant, your maid, the Levite, the foreigner, and the orphans and widows who live in your neighborhood.
15Celebrate the Feast to GOD, your God, for seven days at the place GOD designates. GOD, your God, has been blessing you in your harvest and in all your work, so make a day of it—really celebrate!
16All your men must appear before GOD, your God, three times each year at the place he designates： at the Feast-of-Unraised-Bread (Passover), at the Feast-of-Weeks, and at the Feast-of-Booths. No one is to show up in the Presence of GOD empty-handed;
17each man must bring as much as he can manage, giving generously in response to the blessings of GOD, your God.
18Appoint judges and officers, organized by tribes, in all the towns that GOD, your God, is giving you. They are to judge the people fairly and honestly.
19Don't twist the law. Don't play favorites. Don't take a bribe—a bribe blinds even a wise person; it undermines the intentions of the best of people.
20The right! The right! Pursue only what's right! It's the only way you can really live and possess the land that GOD, your God, is giving you.
17And don't sacrifice to GOD, your God, an ox or sheep that is defective or has anything at all wrong with it. That's an abomination, an insult to GOD, your God.
2If you find anyone within the towns that GOD, your God, is giving you doing what is wrong in GOD's eyes, breaking his covenant
3by going off to worship other gods, bowing down to them—the sun, say, or the moon, or any rebel sky-gods—
4look at the evidence and investigate carefully. If you find that it is true, that, in fact, an abomination has been committed in Israel,
5then you are to take the man or woman who did this evil thing outside your city gates and stone the man or the woman. Hurl stones at the person until dead.
6But only on the testimony of two or three witnesses may a person be put to death. No one may be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
7The witnesses must throw the first stones in the execution, then the rest of the community joins in. You have to purge the evil from your community.
8When matters of justice come up that are too much for you—hard cases regarding homicides, legal disputes, fights—take them up to the central place of worship that GOD, your God, has designated.
9Bring them to the Levitical priests and the judge who is in office at the time. Consult them and they will hand down the decision for you.
10Then carry out their verdict at the place designated by GOD, your God. Do what they tell you, in exactly the way they tell you.
12Anyone who presumes to override or twist the decision handed down by the priest or judge who was acting in the Presence of GOD, your God, is as good as dead—root him out, rid Israel of the evil.
14When you enter the land that GOD, your God, is giving you and take it over and settle down, and then say, "I'm going to get me a king, a king like all the nations around me,"
15make sure you get yourself a king whom GOD, your God, chooses. Choose your king from among your kinsmen; don't take a foreigner—only a kinsman.
16And make sure he doesn't build up a war machine, amassing military horses and chariots. He must not send people to Egypt to get more horses, because GOD told you, "You'll never go back there again!"
17And make sure he doesn't build up a harem, collecting wives who will divert him from the straight and narrow. And make sure he doesn't pile up a lot of silver and gold.
18This is what must be done： When he sits down on the throne of his kingdom, the first thing he must do is make himself a copy of this Revelation on a scroll, copied under the supervision of the Levitical priests.
19That scroll is to remain at his side at all times; he is to study it every day so that he may learn what it means to fear his GOD, living in reverent obedience before these rules and regulations by following them.
20He must not become proud and arrogant, changing the commands at whim to suit himself or making up his own versions. If he reads and learns, he will have a long reign as king in Israel, he and his sons.
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