🍞 Deuteronomy 15

Deuteronomy 15 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.

Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “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.” Deuteronomy 15 opens with these words: “At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.” The line to keep is Deuteronomy 15:4: “However there shall 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 it)” Carry the word “however” from that verse into the rest of the day.

The line worth learning out loud is Deuteronomy 15:4: “However there shall 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 it)” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.

What happens first in Deuteronomy 15? Then try this: Read “However there shall be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.