The cost priced into the statute

Deut 15:9 names the thought its own schedule creates: the seventh year is at hand, and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought. The text calls that thought beliya'al.

Geometry, Release: A reading, and a place where the text is ahead of the mathematics: the equation has no term for what releasing costs, and Deuteronomy names it.

In plain words

Deuteronomy even names the temptation its own schedule creates: as the seventh year nears, lenders will be tempted to refuse the poor, and the law warns against it. The law predicts its own side effect; here the text is ahead of the mathematics.

The mechanism

RELEASE, WITH ITS COST PRICED INTO THE STATUTE — a scheduled remission makes credit to the poor dry up as the date nears, and the statute predicts its own upstream instability in advance. The held-pressure equation carries no cost-of-release term; here the text is ahead of the math, and should be printed that way.

Scripture

Deuteronomy 15:9; 15:2

How it was checked

• EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED; a release
• Letter eraTHE LINE HELD THROUGH HELL Abraham to Solomon, c. 2000 to c. 930 BC
• SourcesSCRIPTURE — Deuteronomy 15:9; the operative prohibition at 15:2 is lo yiggos, do not press for payment