At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation ¹  of debts.

I thought this was a good idea, ¹  so I sent ²  twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.

He ¹  commanded them: “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts, ²  at the Feast of Temporary Shelters, ³ 

If your fellow Hebrew ¹  – whether male or female ²  – is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant ³  go free. ⁴ 

At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice ¹  the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved ¹  wife as firstborn and give him the double portion ²  of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power ³  – to him should go the right of the firstborn.