16. Let the slave live with you anywhere he likes. He may live in any town he chooses. Do not mistreat him.
17. No Israelite man or woman must ever become a temple prostitute.
18. Do not bring a male or female prostitute’s pay to the Temple of the Lord your God to pay what you have promised to the Lord. The Lord your God hates prostitution.
19. You may loan your fellow Israelite money or food or anything else. But don’t make him pay back more than what you loaned him.
20. You may charge a foreigner, but not a fellow Israelite. Then the Lord your God will bless everything you do. He will bless you in the land you are entering to take as your own.
21. You might make a promise to give something to the Lord your God. Do not be slow to pay it. The Lord your God demands it from you. Do not be guilty of sin.
22. But if you do not make the promise, you will not be guilty.
23. You must do whatever you say you will do. You chose to make the promise to the Lord your God.
24. You might go into your neighbor’s vineyard. You may eat as many grapes as you wish. But do not fill your basket with his grapes.
25. You might go into your neighbor’s grainfield. You may pick grain with your hands. But you must not cut down his grain with your sickle.