The Laws of Release in Deuteronomy 15

Background and context

Deuteronomy contains three speeches from Moses, divinely inspired, delivered as his final act before the people enter their promised destination.

The backstory reaches nearly 500 years prior, when God promised Abram countless descendants. Those descendants existed 430 ye…

The law of servitude release 

Let’s examine another dimension of release in Deuteronomy 15:12-18, one operating on individual rather than national timing. Unlike the sabbatical debt release, this freedom-giving operated seven years from when service began: “If your brother, a Hebrew man …