Deuteronômio 15

1 At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts. 2 This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother, because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed. 3 Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release. 4 However there will be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess) 5 if only you diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today. 6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. 7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; 8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks. 9 Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand," and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you. 10 You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to. 11 For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land. 12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. 13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty. 14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. 15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today. 16 It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you," because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you, 17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise. 18 It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do. 19 You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. 20 You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household. 21 If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God. 22 You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer. 23 Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Te Tau Tukunga Noatanga

1 Hei te mutunga o ngā tau e whitu ka mea koe he tukunga noatanga. 2 Ā, ko te tikanga tēnei mō te tuku noa: ko ngā kaiwhakatārewa moni katoa, e whakatārewa moni ana ki ō rātou hoa, me tuku noa atu; kaua te kaiwhakatārewa e tohe ki tōna hoa, ki tōna teina rānei; nō te mea e karangatia ana ko te tukunga noatanga a Ihowā. 3 He tangata iwi kē, tohea atu; ko tāu mea ia i tōu teina, me tuku noa e tōu ringa. 4 Engari hoki me kore te rawakore i roto i a koe; ka manaaki rawa hoki a Ihowā i a koe i runga i te whenua ka hōmai nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koe, kia tangohia hei kāinga tupu, 5 ki te āta whakarongo i a koe ki te reo o Ihowā, o tōu Atua, kia puritia, kia mahia ēnei whakahau katoa e whakahau nei ahau i tēnei rā ki a koe. 6 Nō te mea ka manaakitia koe e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ka pērātia me tāna i kī ai ki a koe. Ā, māu e whakatārewa moni ki ngā iwi maha, ko koe ia kaua e tango i te moni tārewa; ā, ko koe hei ariki mō ngā iwi maha, kāhore hoki rātou e ariki ki a koe.

7 Ki te mea kei roto i a koe tētahi e rawakore ana, tētahi o ōu tēina, i roto i tētahi o ōu kūwaha o tōu whenua, e hōmai nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koe, kaua e whakauaua tōu ngākau, kaua hoki e kopia tōu ringa ki tōu teina rawakore. 8 Engari, me whakatuwhera mārie tōu ringa ki a ia, kia ngāwari hoki ki te whakatārewa moni ki a ia kia rite ki tōna mate i te mea e hapa ana i a ia. 9 Kia tūpato kei puta ake te whakaaro kino i roto i tōu ngākau, kei mea, "E tata ana te tau whitu, te tau tuku noa," ā, ka kino tōu kanohi ki tōu teina rawakore, ā, e kore e hoatu e koe ki a ia; nā, ka tangi atu ia ki a Ihowā i a koe ka kino nei, ā, ka whai hara koe. 10 Me tino hoatu e koe ki a ia, kaua hoki tōu ngākau e pōuri, ina hoatu e koe ki a ia; ko te mea hoki tēnei e manaaki ai a Ihowā, tōu Atua, i a koe, i āu mahi katoa, i ngā mea katoa e totoro atu ai tōu ringa. 11 E kore hoki e kore te rawakore i te whenua; koia tāku e whakahau nei ki a koe, e mea nei, "Kia tuwhera tonu tōu ringa ki tōu teina, ki tōu hunga matekai, ki ōu rawakore, i tōu whenua."

Te Tukunga Noa o ngā Pononga

12 Ki te hokona atu ki a koe tōu teina, he tāne Hiperu, he wahine Hiperu rānei, ā, ka mahi ki a koe e ono ngā tau; nā, hei te whitu o ngā tau me tuku ia kia haere noa atu i a koe. 13 Ā, ki te tuku koe i a ia kia haere noa atu i a koe, kaua ia e tukua rawakoretia atu. 14 Engari, kia māhorahora te hoatu ki a ia i ētahi o āu hipi, o tāu patunga wīti, o tāu poka wāina hoki; me hoatu ki a ia ētahi o ngā mea i hoatu e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, hei manaaki mōu. 15 Kia mahara hoki he pononga koe i mua, i te whenua o Īhipa, ā, nā Ihowā, nā tōu Atua, koe i whakaora; koia ahau i whakahau ai i tēnei mea ki a koe ināianei.

16 Nā, ki te mea ia ki a koe, "E kore ahau e mawehe atu i a koe," he aroha hoki nōna ki a koutou ko tōu whare, he pai nō tāna noho ki a koe; 17 kātahi koe ka tango i tētahi mea poka, ka titi ai i tōna taringa ki te tatau, ā, ka waiho ia hei pononga māu, oti tonu atu.

Me pēnā hoki ki tāu pononga wahine.

18 Kei mea he pakeke rawa ki a koe, ina tukua ia kia haere noa atu i a koe; e rite ana hoki āna mahi ki a koe i ngā tau e ono ki a ngā kaimahi tokorua e utua ana; ā, ka manaaki a Ihowā, tōu Atua, i a koe i ngā mea katoa e mea ai koe.

Ngā Mātāmua a ngā Kararehe

19 Ko ngā toa mātāmua e whānau ana i roto i āu kau, i āu hipi, me whakatapu e koe mā Ihowā, mā tōu Atua; kaua e whakamahia tāu pūru mātāmua, kaua hoki e kutikutia tāu hipi mātāmua. 20 Kainga ki te aroaro o Ihowā, o tōu Atua, i tēnei tau, i tēnei tau, e koe, e tōu whare, ki te wāhi e whiriwhiri ai a Ihowā, tōu Atua. 21 Ā, ki te mea he koha tōna – inā rā he totitoti, he matapō – tētahi atu koha kino rānei, kaua ia e patua mā Ihowā, mā tōu Atua. 22 Kainga i roto i ōu kūwaha; mā te poke, mā te pokekore taua mea e kai, pērā me te kahera, me te hāta. 23 Otiia, kaua e kainga ōna toto; ringihia atu ki te whenua, ānō he wai.