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Deuteronomy 15 states that debtors should be released from their debts after seven years. The United States also has a seven-year statute of limitation on debts. Did the seven-year provision in the Bible directly influence this law?

by /u/Durendal_et_Joyeuse in /r/AskHistorians

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