中英对照

1. 1.每逢第七年，你们应当实行免债。Every seventh year you shall practice remission of debts.💡
2. 2.这是豁免的方式：所有的债权人都要免除他们向以色列同胞索要的债务，不得向以色列同胞，即他们的亲属催讨，因为宣布的豁免是属于上帝的。This shall be the nature of the remission: all creditors shall remit the due that they claim from their fellow Israelites; they shall not dun their fellow Israelites—their kindred—for the remission proclaimed is of GOD.💡
3. 3.你可以向外人讨债，但你必须免除你亲族欠你的债。You may dun the foreigner; but you must remit whatever is due you from your kindred.💡
4. 4.你们中间不得有贫穷的，因为上帝耶和华要在上帝耶和华所赐给你们为业的土地上赐福于你们There shall be no needy among you—since the ETERNAL your God will bless you in the land that the ETERNAL your God is giving you as a hereditary portion—💡
5. 5.只要你听从你神永恒的言语，并谨慎遵守我今日所吩咐你的这一切法令if only you heed the ETERNAL your God and take care to keep all this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day.💡
6. 6.因为你永在的神必如所应许的赐福于你，你必借给许多国，自己却不用借；你必管辖许多国，许多国却不能管辖你。For the ETERNAL your God will bless you as promised: you will extend loans to many nations, but require none yourself; you will dominate many nations, but they will not dominate you.💡
7. 7.然而，在你们中间如果存在贫困的人，是你们的亲属，在耶和华你们的神所赐给你们的土地，任意一个城邑中，你不可硬着心，紧着拳头，对你的贫困亲属。If, however, there is a needy person among you, one of your kindred in any of your settlements in the land that the ETERNAL your God is giving you, do not harden your heart and shut your hand against your needy kindred.💡
8. 8.你必须张开手，借给他所需的，足够他需要的。Rather, you must open your hand and lend whatever is sufficient to meet the need. 💡
9. 9.要谨慎，不要在心里起这样的恶念：“第七年，免债的年份快到了。”以致你对亲属困苦的人硬着心，什么也不给他。他们就会在上帝面前控告你，你就有了罪。Beware lest you harbor the base thought, “The seventh year, the year of remission, is approaching,” so that you are mean and give nothing to your needy kindred—who will cry out to GOD against you, and you will incur guilt.💡
10. 10.甘心给予，不要有任何遗憾，因为上帝永恒的神会在你所有的努力和事业中祝福你。Give readily and have no regrets when you do so, for in return the ETERNAL your God will bless you in all your efforts and in all your undertakings.💡
11. 11.因为在你的地上永远会有贫穷的人，所以我命令你：要向贫穷和困苦的亲属在你地上开放你的手。For there will never cease to be needy ones in your land, which is why I command you: open your hand to the poor and needy kindred in your land.💡
12. 12.若是你本国的希伯来人，无论男女，被卖给你，他必服侍你六年，到第七年你必使他自由。If any fellow Hebrew, man or woman, is sold to you, they shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall set them free. 💡
13. 13.当你释放他们时，不要让他们空手而去：When you set them free, do not let them go empty-handed: 💡
14. 14.用上帝你的神所赐福你的羊群、禾场和酒醡中的物资来供给他们。Furnish them out of the flock, threshing floor, and vat, with which the ETERNAL your God has blessed you.💡
15. 15.要记得你们曾经是埃及地的奴僕，耶和华你们的神将你们救赎出来；因此我今天吩咐你们这样行。Bear in mind that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and the ETERNAL your God redeemed you; therefore I enjoin this commandment upon you today.💡
16. 16.但他们若对你说“我不愿离开你”，因为他们爱你和你的家，并且在你这里得了安息，But should they say to you, “I do not want to leave you”—for they love you and your household and are happy with you— 💡
17. 17.你要拿起锥子，将它穿过他们的耳朵，钉在门上，他们就永远成为你的奴僕。你也要这样对待你的女奴。you shall take an awl and put it through their ear into the door, and they shall become your slave in perpetuity. Do this even with your female slave. 💡
18. 18.当你释放他们的时候，不要因此感到怨恨，因为在六年里，他们为你做了双倍于雇工的工作。并且，你的神永恒主必在你所做的一切事上赐福给你。When you do set them free, do not feel aggrieved; for in the six years you have been given double the service of a hired worker. Moreover, the ETERNAL your God will bless you in all you do.💡
19. 19.你 参看十二章五节注释 要将你牧群中和羊群中所生的所有公首胎献给你神永恒主，你不可使你的首胎牛劳作，也不可剪你的首胎羊毛。You shall consecrate to the ETERNAL your God all male firstlings that are born in your herd and in your flock: you must not work your firstling ox or shear your firstling sheep.💡
20. 20.你和你的家庭每年要在上帝面前，在上帝所选择的地方吃掉它。You and your household shall eat it annually before the ETERNAL your God in the place that GOD will choose.💡
21. 21.但若有残疾、跛脚或是瞎眼，任意严重的残疾，你都不可将它献给你神永恒主。But if it has a defect, lameness or blindness, any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the ETERNAL your God.💡
22. 22.在你们的住处吃它，你们中不洁的和洁的一样，都像吃羚羊和鹿一样。Eat it in your settlements, the impure among you no less than the pure, just like the gazelle and the deer. 💡
23. 23.只是你们不可吃它的血，要把血倒在地上像水一样。Only you must not partake of its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.💡