Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 15:11 
Context15:11 There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open 1 your hand to your fellow Israelites 2 who are needy and poor in your land.
Deuteronomy 24:12
Context24:12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering. 3
1 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “make sure.”
2 tn Heb “your brother.”
3 tn Heb “may not lie down in his pledge.” What is in view is the use of clothing as guarantee for the repayment of loans, a matter already addressed elsewhere (Deut 23:19-20; 24:6; cf. Exod 22:25-26; Lev 25:35-37). Cf. NAB “you shall not sleep in the mantle he gives as a pledge”; NRSV “in the garment given you as the pledge.”
