15. Don’t return slaves to owners if they’ve escaped and come to you.
16. They can stay with you: in your own community or in any place they select from one of your cities, whatever seems good to them. Don’t oppress them.
17. No Israelite daughter is allowed to be a consecrated worker. Neither is any Israelite son allowed to be a consecrated worker.
18. Don’t bring a female prostitute’s fee or a male prostitute’s payment to the Lord your God’s temple to pay a solemn promise because both of these things are detestable to the Lord your God.
19. Don’t charge your fellow Israelites interest—whether on money, provisions, or anything one might loan.
20. You can charge foreigners interest, but not your fellow Israelite. Do this so that the Lord your God blesses you in all your work on the land you are entering to possess.
21. When you make a promise to the Lord your God, don’t put off making good on it, because the Lord your God will certainly be expecting it from you; delaying would make you guilty.
22. Now if you simply don’t make any promises, you won’t be guilty of anything.
23. But whatever you say, you should be sure to make good on, exactly according to the promise you freely made to the Lord your God because you promised it with your own mouth.