Deuteronomy 15:2

15:2 This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; ¹  he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, ²  for it is to be recognized as “the Lord’s cancellation of debts.”

Deuteronomy 15:9

15:9 Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude ³  be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite ⁴  and you do not lend ⁵  him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you and you will be regarded as having sinned. ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 19:5

19:5 Suppose he goes with someone else ⁷  to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax ⁸  to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose ⁹  from the handle and strikes ¹⁰  his fellow worker ¹¹  so hard that he dies. The person responsible ¹²  may then flee to one of these cities to save himself. ¹³ 

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¹ tn Heb “his neighbor,” used idiomatically to refer to another person.

² tn Heb “his neighbor and his brother.” The words “his brother” may be a scribal gloss identifying “his neighbor” (on this idiom, see the preceding note) as a fellow Israelite (cf. v. 3). In this case the conjunction before “his brother” does not introduce a second category, but rather has the force of “that is.”

³ tn Heb “your eye.”

⁴ tn Heb “your needy brother.”

⁵ tn Heb “give” (likewise in v. 10).

⁶ tn Heb “it will be a sin to you.”

⁷ tn Heb “his neighbor” (so NAB, NIV); NASB “his friend.”

⁸ tn Heb “and he raises his hand with the iron.”

⁹ tn Heb “the iron slips off.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “finds.”

¹¹ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person responsible for his friend’s death) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Heb “and live.”