Debt

Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.

Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,

She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”

When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow and will cancel every debt.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.

His master had compassion on him, forgave his debt, and released him.

But he refused. Instead, he went and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay his debt.

Then the master summoned him and said, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave all your debt because you begged me.

…having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!