Deuteronomy 15:1

At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. Not of servants, for they were not to be dismissed from their service until they had served six years, as is directed to in a following law;…

The year of release is no doubt identical with the sabbatical year of the earlier legislation (Exo 23:10 ff, and Lev 25:2 ff), the command of the older legislation being here amplified. The release…

Here is, I. A law for the relief of poor debtors, such (we may suppose) as were insolvent. Every seventh year was a year of release, in which the ground rested from being tilled and servants were…

At the end of seven years So Heb. That is, in the seventh year, as is clearly put in Deu 15:15 (cp. Jer 34:14): see also Deu 14:28.

a release or remission, Heb. shemiṭṭahfrom shamaṭ, to let drop(2Ki…