1. “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release.
2. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord’s release has been proclaimed.
3. Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.
4. But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess—