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Deuteronomy 15:5-7
New English Translation

5 if you carefully obey[a] him[b] by keeping[c] all these commandments that I am giving[d] you today. 6 For the Lord your God will bless you just as he has promised; you will lend to many nations but will not borrow from any, and you will rule over many nations but they will not rule over you.

The Spirit of Liberality

7 If a fellow Israelite[e] from one of your villages[f] in the land that the Lord your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive[g] to his impoverished condition.[h]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 15:5 tn Heb “if listening you listen to the voice of.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “carefully.” The idiom “listen to the voice” means “obey.”
  2. Deuteronomy 15:5 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 15:4.
  3. Deuteronomy 15:5 tn Heb “by being careful to do.”
  4. Deuteronomy 15:5 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB); NAB “which I enjoin you today.”
  5. Deuteronomy 15:7 tn Heb “one of your brothers” (so NASB); NAB “one of your kinsmen”; NRSV “a member of your community.” See the note at v. 2.
  6. Deuteronomy 15:7 tn Heb “gates.”
  7. Deuteronomy 15:7 tn Heb “withdraw your hand.” Cf. NIV “hardhearted or tightfisted” (NRSV and NLT similar).
  8. Deuteronomy 15:7 tn Heb “from your needy brother.”
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