Positive Commandment #285 of 613
Release all loans during the seventh year
Commandment #285 — a positive obligation from Deuteronomy 15:2, classified under Shemittah and Yovel in the 613 commandments of the Torah.
Scripture
“"This is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD'S remission has been proclaimed.”
— Deuteronomy 15:2
Hebrew
ב וְזֶה, דְּבַר הַשְּׁמִטָּה--שָׁמוֹט כָּל-בַּעַל מַשֵּׁה יָדוֹ, אֲשֶׁר יַשֶּׁה בְּרֵעֵהוּ: לֹא-יִגֹּשׂ אֶת-רֵעֵהוּ וְאֶת-אָחִיו, כִּי-קָרָא שְׁמִטָּה לַיהוָה.
Greek (Septuagint)
2 καὶ οὕτως τὸ πρόσταγμα τῆς ἀφέσεως· ἀφήσεις πᾶν χρέος ἴδιον, ὃ ὀφείλει σοι ὁ πλησίον, καὶ τὸν ἀδελφόν σου οὐκ ἀπαιτήσεις, ὅτι ἐπικέκληται ἄφεσις κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ σου.
Classification
- Type
- Positive (Thou Shalt)
- Category
- Shemittah and Yovel
- Book
- deuteronomy
- Chapter
- 15
Scholarly References
- Parashah
- Re'eh
- Sefer HaChinuch
- #475
- Mishneh Torah
- SeedsThe Sabbatical Year and the Jubilee
Related Commandments in “Shemittah and Yovel”
#279: The land shall rest unworked during the seventh year
Exodus 34:21
#280: Do not work the land during the seventh year
Leviticus 25:4
#281: Do not work with trees to produce fruit during the seventh year
Leviticus 25:4
#282: Do not reap crops that grow wild during the seventh year in the normal manner
Leviticus 25:5
#283: Do not gather grapes which grow wild during the seventh year in the normal way
Leviticus 25:5
#284: Leave free all produce which grew in the seventh year
Exodus 23:11
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