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 19:5

19:5 Suppose he goes with someone else ³  to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax ⁴  to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose ⁵  from the handle and strikes ⁶  his fellow worker ⁷  so hard that he dies. The person responsible ⁸  may then flee to one of these cities to save himself. ⁹ 

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

⁴ tn Heb “and he raises his hand with the iron.”

⁵ tn Heb “the iron slips off.”

⁶ tn Heb “finds.”

⁷ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person responsible for his friend’s death) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “and live.”