9. `Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart--worthless, saying, Near [is] the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin;
10. thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand;
11. because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.
12. `When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years--then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee.
13. And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty;
14. thou dost certainly encircle him out of thy flock, and out of thy threshingfloor, and out of thy wine-vat; [of] that which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou dost give to him,
15. and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.
16. `And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee--because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because [it is] good for him with thee--
17. then thou hast taken the awl, and hast put [it] through his ear, and through the door, and he hath been to thee a servant age-during; and also to thy handmaid thou dost do so.