KJV King James Version
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
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Deuteronomy 15:11
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
WEB World English Bible
For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
ASV American Standard Version
For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 15
8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he wanteth.
9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
12 [And] if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
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כִּ֛יH3588 · kiforלֹא־H3808 · lonotיֶחְדַּ֥לH2308 · cha.dalto ceaseאֶבְי֖וֹןH34 · ev.yonneedyמִקֶּ֣רֶבH7130 · qe.reventrails: amongהָאָ֑רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetעַל־H5921 · aluponכֵּ֞ןH3651 · kenrightאָנֹכִ֤יH595 · a.no.khiIמְצַוְּךָ֙H6680 · tsa.vahto commandלֵאמֹ֔רH559 · a.marto sayפָּ֠תֹחַH6605 · pa.tachto openתִּפְתַּ֨חH6605 · pa.tachto openאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]יָדְךָ֜H3027 · yadhandלְאָחִ֧יךָH251 · achbrother: male-siblingלַעֲנִיֶּ֛ךָH6041 · a.niafflictedוּלְאֶבְיֹנְךָ֖H34 · ev.yonneedyבְּאַרְצֶֽךָ׃ סH776 · e.retsland: country/planet
Cross-references
Mark 14:7For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.Matthew 26:11For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.John 12:8For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.Deuteronomy 15:8But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he wanteth.1 John 3:16-18Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.Proverbs 22:2The rich and poor meet together: the LORD [is] the maker of them all.Acts 4:32-35And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any [of them] that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.Luke 12:33Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.Matthew 5:42Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.2 Corinthians 8:2-9How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.Acts 2:45And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all [men], as every man had need.Acts 11:28-30And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
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