Kindness for Poor Brothers

35 ^p“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. 36 ^qTake no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. 37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. 38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

7 ⁱ“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not ^jharden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, 8 but you shall open your hand to him and ^klend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. 9 Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly¹ on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, ^land he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin. 10 You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall ^mnot be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. 11 For ⁿthere will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

12 And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge. 13 ^jYou shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And ^kit shall be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.

14 “You shall not ^loppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.