^{11 Ref} 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.

^{12 Ref} And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

^{13 Ref} And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

^{14 Ref} Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

^{15 Ref} And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

^{16 Ref} And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;