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Deuteronomy 15 Translation Questions
Q? What must the Israelites do at the end of every seven years?
A. At the end of every seven years the Israelites must cancel debts. [15:1]
Q? Why is every debt to be canceled every seven years?
A. Every creditor will cancel that which he has lent to his neighbor or his brother because Yahweh's cancellation of debt has been proclaimed. [15:2]
Q? From whom can Israelites continue to demand payment at the end of every seven years?
A. The Israelites can continue to demand payment of a debt from a foreigner. [14:3]
Q? Why will there be no poor among the Israelites?
A. Yahweh will surely bless them in the land that he gives to Israel as an inheritance to possess. [15:4]
Q? What will happen to the Israelites to demonstrate that Yahweh the God of Israel has blessed them?
A. Israel will lend to many nations, but will not borrow; Israel will rule over many nations, but the other nations will not rule over Israel. [15:6]
Q? What are the Israelites told to do if there is a poor man among them?
A. The Israelites are told not to harden their heart nor shut their hand from their poor brother. [15:7]
Q? What should the Israelites be careful to not to do when the seventh year, the year of release is near?
A. They should not refuse to give to a poor brother at a time when the seventh year, the year of release, is near. [15:9]
Q? What will Yahweh do for the Israelites in return for giving to the poor at a time when the seventh year is near?
A. Yahweh will bless the Israelites in all their work and everything to which they put their hand. [15:10]
Q? Why is Israel commanded to open their hands to their brother, to the needy and the poor in their land?
A. the poor will never cease to exist in the land. [15:11]
Q? What are Israelites instructed to give a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman who is released to go free in the seventh year?
A. They must provide for them freely out of the flock, out of the threshing floor and out of the wine press just as Yahweh their God has blessed the Israelite. [15:14]
Q? What are the Israelites to remember as they give to the one they set free?
A. The Israelites are told to remember that they were slaves in the land of Egypt. [15:15]
Q? What is an Israelite to do to a male or female servant who says "I will not go away from you"?
A. the Israelite is to take an awl and thrust it through the slave's ear to a door, and he or she will be that Israelite's servant forever. [15:16-17]
Q? Why should it not seem difficult for the Israelite to let the slave go free?
A. It should not be difficult because he has served them for six years and given twice the value of a hired person. [15:18]
Q? What must the people of Israel do with the firstborn males in their herd and their flock?
A. They must eat the firstborn before Yahweh year by year with their household in the place that Yahweh will choose. [15:19-20]
Q? What are the Israelites to do with the firstborn animal if it is lame or blind or has any blemish whatever?
A. They must not sacrifice it to Yahweh, but instead they should eat it within their gates. [15:21]
Q? What are the Israelites to do with the blood of the firstborn that is blemished?
A. They must pour the blood of the firstborn that is blemished on the ground like water. [15:23]