¹At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.

¹Ob koncu vsakega sedmega leta napravi odpuščanje.

²This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.

²In ta bodi način odpuščanja: odpusti naj vsak upnik, kar je posodil svojemu bližnjemu; ne terjaj za to svojega bližnjega ali svojega brata, ker je bilo GOSPODOVO odpuščanje razglašeno.

³Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.

³inostranca smeš za to terjati, ali karkoli je tvojega pri tvojem bratu, mu odpústi.

⁴However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)

⁴Samo da ne bi bilo ubožca med vami; kajti GOSPOD te bo obilo blagoslovil v deželi, ki ti jo da GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, za dediščino, da jo posedeš;

⁵if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.

⁵samo če boš zvesto poslušal glas GOSPODA, svojega Boga, prizadevajoč si, da izpolnjuješ vso to zapoved, ki ti jo jaz danes zapovedujem.

⁶For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

⁶Ko te bo GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, blagoslovil, kakor ti je obljubil: tedaj boš posojeval mnogim narodom, sam pa ne boš ničesar jemal naposodo, vladal boš mnogim narodom, a tebi ne bo nihče vladal.

⁷If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

⁷Ako bode med vami ubožec, eden bratov tvojih, v kateremkoli mestu v tvoji deželi, ki ti jo daje GOSPOD, vaš Bog, ne zakrkni srca svojega ter ne zapri roke svoje proti ubogemu svojemu bratu,

⁸but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

⁸temuč rad mu odpri roko in voljno mu daj naposodo, kolikor zadostuje potrebi njegovi, česar strada.

⁹Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

⁹Varuj se, da ne bo hudobne misli v tvojem srcu, da bi rekel: Bliža se sedmo leto, leto odpuščanja, in oko tvoje bi bilo hudobno proti ubogemu bratu tvojemu, in ničesar mu ne daš, in on bo vpil h GOSPODU proti tebi, in greh bo na tebi.

¹⁰You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

¹⁰Drage volje mu daj in ne bodi ti v srcu žal, ko mu daš, kajti za to stvar te bo blagoslovil GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, pri vsem tvojem delu in v vsem, česar se ti loti roka

¹¹For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

¹¹Zakaj ubogih ne bo kar zmanjkalo v deželi, zatorej ti zapovedujem takole: Rad odpri roko svojemu bratu, potrebnemu in siromaku v deželi tvoji.

¹²If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

¹²Če ti bo prodan tvoj brat, Hebrejec ali Hebrejka, naj ti služi šest let, v sedmem letu pa ga odpusti svobodnega.

¹³When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

¹³In ko ga odpustiš na svobodo, ne pusti ga praznega,

¹⁴you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

¹⁴ampak obloži ga z darili od ovac svojih in z gumna svojega in iz tlačilnice svoje; daj mu od tega, s čimer te je blagoslovil GOSPOD, tvoj Bog.

¹⁵You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.

¹⁵In spominjaj se, da si bil sužnik v deželi Egiptovski, in GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, te je odkupil: zato ti jaz danes to zapovedujem.

¹⁶It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you”; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

¹⁶Ako pa ti poreče: Ne pojdem od tebe – ker ljubi tebe in tvojo družino, ker se mu dobro godi pri tebi –

¹⁷then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

¹⁷vzemi šilo in mu prebodi uho na durih, in hlapec ti bode za vselej. Tudi s svojo deklo stori enako.

¹⁸It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

¹⁸Nikar naj se ti ne zdi težko, ko ga svobodnega odpuščaš, zakaj služil ti je vredno dvojnega najemnikovega plačila šest let; in GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, te bo blagoslovil v vsem, kar opravljaš.

¹⁹All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

¹⁹Vse prvorojeno, ki bo storjeno med tvojimi govedi in ovcami, kar jih bo samcev, posveti GOSPODU, Bogu svojemu. V jarem ne vklepaj prvenca svoje govedi, tudi ne strizi prvencev svojih ovac.

²⁰You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.

²⁰Pred GOSPODOM, Bogom svojim, jih použij ti in tvoja hiša, leto za letom, na mestu, ki si ga izvoli GOSPOD.

²¹If it has any blemish, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.

²¹Ako pa ima živinče kako hibo, da je hromo ali slepo, ali kakršnobodi hudo hibo, ga ne smeš darovati GOSPODU, svojemu Bogu,

²²You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.

²²temuč v svojih vratih ga zaužij. Čisti in nečisti naj to jé enako kakor srno in jelena,samo krvi ne jej, na zemljo jo izlij kakor vodo.

²³Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.

²³samo krvi ne jej, na zemljo jo izlij kakor vodo.