Deuteronomy 15:7
The Spirit of Liberality
15:7 If a fellow Israelite 1 from one of your villages 2 in the land that the Lord your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive 3 to his impoverished condition. 4
Deuteronomy 20:8
20:8 In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s 5 heart as fearful 6 as his own.”
Deuteronomy 28:65
28:65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.
Deuteronomy 30:6
30:6 The Lord your God will also cleanse 7 your heart and the hearts of your descendants 8 so that you may love him 9 with all your mind and being and so that you may live.
1 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.
2 tn Heb “gates.”
3 tn Heb “withdraw your hand.” Cf. NIV “hardhearted or tightfisted” (NRSV and NLT similar).
4 tn Heb “from your needy brother.”
5 tn Heb “his brother’s.”
6 tn Heb “melted.”
7 tn Heb “circumcise” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “will give you and your descendents obedient hearts.” See note on the word “cleanse” in Deut 10:16.
8 tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).
9 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.