Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 15:7 
Context15:7 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 15:10
Context15:10 You must by all means lend 5 to him and not be upset by doing it, 6 for because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.
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 The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “by all means.”
6 tc Heb “your heart must not be grieved in giving to him.” The LXX and Orig add, “you shall surely lend to him sufficient for his need,” a suggestion based on the same basic idea in v. 8. Such slavish adherence to stock phrases is without warrant in most cases, and certainly here.
