Thematic Bible: Sometimes entirely remitted debts
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Sometimes entirely remitted debts
Also, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please stop [taking] this interest. Please restore to them this day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, their houses, and the interest on the money, the grain, the grape juice, and the olive oil that you have been taking from them." So they said, "We will restore it and will not request [anything more]. So we will do as you say." Then I called the priests and made them take an oath to do this promise.
So the master of that slave, [because he] had compassion, released him and forgave him the loan.
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[When] they were not able to repay [him], he forgave [the debts] of both. Now which of them will love him more?"
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