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The Seventh Year

Deuteronomy 15:1

In 11 translations

BSB
At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
KJV
At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
WEB
At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.
ASV
At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
LSV
“At the end of seven years you make a release,
YLT
'At the end of seven years thou dost make a release,
DBY
At the end of seven years thou shalt make a release,
DRC
In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission,
GNV
At the terme of seuen yeeres thou shalt make a freedome.
JPS
At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
LXXE
Every seven years thou shalt make a release.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
מִקֵּ֥ץ שֶֽׁבַע־שָׁנִ֖ים תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה שְׁמִטָּֽה׃
LXX-Br
Διʼ ἑπτὰ ἐτῶν ποιήσεις ἄφεσιν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 31:10Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,
  • Exodus 23:10–11For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce, but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume…
  • Leviticus 25:2–4“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD. For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its…
  • Exodus 21:2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
  • Luke 4:18–19“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim…
  • Isaiah 61:1–3The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners, to…
  • Jeremiah 36:8–18So Baruch son of Neriah did everything that Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him. In the house of the LORD he read the words of the LORD from the scroll. Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of…

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