DEUTERONOMY 15:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 1
“For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.”
Now about the release of servants: If a Hebrew serves you for six years, in the seventh year you must let him go free — the Hebrew slave (ebed ivri, likely a debtor sold into servitude) serves for six years then gains release in the seventh. The slave's servitude is bounded by covenant sabbatical.
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