Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 15:2 
Context15:2 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
Context19:5 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
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.”
