Di Papa Year of Release
Every seventh year, dem go cancel debt, and the law call the temptation by im correct name: to refuse to borrow person money because the year of release don near. Open your hand wide. Servant wey dem free go comot with plenty things, no be with empty hand, because you be slave for Egypt and your Papa redeem you.
15 1For di end of every seven years, you go grant release of debt. 2Na dis be di release: every person wey lend money go cancel di loan wey im neighbor owe am. E no fit collect am from im neighbor or im brother, because your Papa don proclaim release. a a v2 Every seventh year, dem go forgive di debt wey fellow Israelite dem owe each other — a regular reset wey no dey let poverty turn to permanent ruin. 3You fit demand payment from a foreigner, but release your brother from wetin e owe you. 4But make no poor person dey among you, because your Papa go sure-sure bless you for di land wey your Papa dey give you to possess as inheritance. 5Only if you truly listen to your Papa voice, dey carefully keep dis whole command wey I dey give you today. 6Because your Papa go bless you as e promise you. You go lend to plenty nations, but you no go borrow from any; you go rule over plenty nations, but none go rule you.
7If one of your brother dem poor for any town for di land wey your Papa dey give you, no harden your heart or close your hand against your poor brother. 8Instead, open your hand wide to am and freely lend am enough for wetin e need. 9Take care make you no let wicked thought fill your heart—‘Di seventh year, di release year, don near’—wey go make your eye turn evil against your poor brother, and you give am notin. E go cry out to your Papa against you, and you go carry di sin. 10Give am with open hand, and no let your heart grieve when you dey give am, because of dis your Papa go bless you for all your work, everytin wey your hand try do. 11Since poor people no go ever comot for di land, I dey command you: open your hand wide to your brother, poor and needy, for your land.
To Free Hebrew Servant Dem
12If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, dem sell am give you and e serve you six years, for di seventh year send am comot free from you. 13And when you set am free, no send am comot with empty hand. 14Supply am freely from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress, as your Papa don bless you. 15Remember say you bin be slave for di land of Egypt; your Papa redeem you—na why I dey command you dis today. 16But if e talk to you say, ‘I no go leave you,’ because e love you and your household, and e dey prosper with you, 17then take awl and pierce am through im ear into di door; e go become your servant forever. Do di same tin for your female servant. 18No think say e hard to free am—im six years worth double di wages of hired hand. Your Papa go bless you for all wey you dey do.
Firstborn Animal Dem Wey Dem Set Apart
19Dedicate every firstborn male of your herd and your flock to your Papa. No work di firstborn of your herd or shear di firstborn of your flock. 20Every year, you and your household go chop am before your Papa for di place wey your Papa go choose. 21But if e get defect, if e lame or blind, or e get any serious flaw, no sacrifice am to your Papa. 22Chop am for your towns, di unclean and di clean person together, like gazelle or deer. 23Only, you no must chop im blood; pour am comot for ground like water.
