Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows: “You have seen all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land.

This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as “the Lord’s cancellation of debts.”

(The Emites used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

Their territory extended from Aroer at the edge of the Arnon valley as far as Mount Siyon – that is, Hermon –

I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.

Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.