income of that year, and shalt leave them in thy gate.

Then shall the Levite, which hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, come and eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the works of thine hand which thou doest.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 15
Of the year, sold servants and firstborn.

For seven years shalt thou keep a year of remission.

And this is the manner of the year of remission: if a man borrow aught of his neighbour, he shall remit it unto him, and shall not exaction it of his neighbour, or of his brother: for it is called a year of remission unto the LORD.

Of a stranger thou mayest remit it: but of him that is thy brother thou shalt remit it.

There shall no beggar be among you: for the LORD shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance;

Only obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and keep all these commandments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

For the LORD thy God shall bless thee, as he hath spoken unto thee. Thus shalt thou lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow of any. Thou shalt rule over many nations, and over thee shall no man rule.

If any of thy brethren be poor in any city of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, harden not thine heart, nor stay thine hand against thy poor brother, 8. But thou shalt open them unto him, and lend unto him according to his lack.

Beware lest there be an evil spirit in thine heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of remission, draweth nigh, and looketh unkindly upon thy poor brother, and giveth him not; and he shall cry unto the LORD against thee, and thou shalt have sin; 10. But thou shalt give unto him, and not grieve thine heart to give unto him: for because of this the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou doest.

There shall always be poor in the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Open thine hand unto thy brother that is oppressed and poor in thy land.

If thy brother, an Eberian, or an Eberian woman, sell himself unto thee, he shall serve thee six years: in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free.

And when thou shalt let him go free, thou shalt not let him go empty from thee, 14. But thou shalt lay up for him of thy flock, of thy threshingfloor, and of thy winepress, to give of that which the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

And remember that thou also wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this day.

And if he shall say unto thee: I will not depart from thee; for I love thee and thy house: for he is well with thee,

So take an awl, and bend it through his ear at the door, and let him be thy servant for ever.
Thou shalt do likewise with thine handmaid.

And let it not seem hard unto thee, that thou shouldest let him go free: for he hath served thee as a twofold hired servant six years: so shall the LORD thy God bless thee in all that thou doest.

Every firstborn that is born among thy oxen and among thy sheep, which is a male, thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not till the firstlings of thine oxen, neither shalt thou feed the firstlings of thy sheep.

Thou shalt eat them before the LORD thy God yearly in the place which the LORD hath named, thou and thy house.

But if it have any blemish, limping, or blind, or any evil defect, thou shalt not offer it unto the LORD thy God,

But in thy gate shalt thou eat it, whether thou be unclean or clean, as the deer and the hart; 23. Only thou shalt not eat of his blood, but shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 16
Of the three main annual festivals.

Keep the moon of Abib, to keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the moon of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee up out of Egypt by night.

And thou shalt kill the passover unto the LORD thy God, sheep and oxen, in the place which the LORD shall choose to put his name there.

Thou shalt not eat leavened bread at the feast. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread of affliction: for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt with fear, that thou mayest remember the day of thy going forth out of the land of Egypt all thy days.

No leavened meat shall be seen within all thy borders seven days: neither shall any of the flesh that is slain in the evening of the first day remain overnight until the morning.

Thou canst not kill the passover in any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, 6. But in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose for his name to dwell there, thou shalt kill the passover at even, when the sun is down, at the time that thou camest out of Egypt; 7. And thou shalt cook it, and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; and afterward thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tabernacle.

Six days shalt thou eat unleavened meat: and on the seventh day is the convocation of the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

Seven weeks shalt thou number thyself, and begin to number them, when they begin to cut the sickle in the seed.

And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God, to give a freewill offering of thine hand, after that the LORD thy God hath blessed thee;

And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among thee, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there.

And remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt, to keep and to do according to these commandments.

The feast of tabernacles shalt thou keep seven days, when thou hast gathered in thy
threshingfloor and thy winepress;

And thou shalt rejoice at thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

Seven days shalt thou keep the feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD
shall choose. For the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine income, and in all the works of thine hands: therefore shalt thou rejoice.

Three times in the year shall all the male of thee appear before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. But it shall not appear empty before the LORD, 17. Every man according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 17
Appointment, election and office of judges, especially of a king.

Judges and officers shalt thou set thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God shall give thee among thy tribes, to judge the people with judgment.

Thou shalt not bend the law, neither shalt thou look upon any person, nor take any gift: for gifts blind the wise, and pervert the things of the righteous.

That which is right thou shalt pursue, that thou mayest live, and possess the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Thou shalt not plant a grove of trees by the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Thou shalt not set thee up a pillar, which the LORD thy God hateth.
Ch. 17, v. 1. Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God an ox or a sheep that hath blemish or any evil thing in it: for it is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

If there be found among thee in the gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, any man or woman that doeth evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to transgress his covenant.

And go and serve other gods, and worship them, whether they be the sun, or the moon, or any host of heaven, which I have not commanded,

And if it be told thee, and thou hear it, thou shalt inquire of it. And if thou find that it is true that such an abomination hath been done in Israel,

Then shalt thou bring forth the same man or woman that hath done this evil unto thy gate, and shalt stone them to death.

In the mouth of two witnesses, or in the mouth of three witnesses, he that is worthy of death shall die: but in the mouth of one witness he shall not die.

The hand of the witnesses shall be first to slay him, and afterward the hand of all the people, that thou put away the wicked from thee.

If any matter be grievous unto thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between commerce and commerce, between hurt and hurt, and whatsoever strife there be in thy gates, then thou shalt arise, and go up to