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Deuteronomy 15:8

But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alms;   Beneficence;   Fraternity;   Lending;   Liberality;   Poor;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Credit System;   Lending;   Seven;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Charity;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hands, the;   Poor, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Loans;   Usury;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Food;   Freedom;   Lending;   Money;   Poor;   Sabbatical year;   Wealth;   Work;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Contribution;   Golden Rule;   Poor and Poverty, Theology of;   Wealth;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Debt;   Debtor;   Poor;   Sabbatical Year;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Poor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alms;   Ethics;   Festivals;   Loan;   Poor, Orphan, Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Debt;   Deuteronomy;   Ethics;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Liberality;   Slave, Slavery (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Alms;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Brother;   Heritage;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Year sabbatical;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Debts;   Usury;   Year;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   Property Given to Religion;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lend;   Poverty;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agrarian Laws;   Charity and Charitable Institutions;   Commandments, the 613;   Loans;   Ransom;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him enough for whatever need he has.
Hebrew Names Version
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.
King James Version
But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Lexham English Bible
But you shall certainly open your hand for him, and you shall willingly lend to him enough to meet his need, whatever it is.
English Standard Version
but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
New Century Version
But give freely to them, and freely lend them whatever they need.
New English Translation
Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs.
Amplified Bible
but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend to him whatever he needs.
New American Standard Bible
but you shall fully open your hand to him, and generously lend him enough for his need in whatever he lacks.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But thou shalt open thine hand vnto him, and shalt lend him sufficient for his neede which he hath.
Legacy Standard Bible
but you shall freely open your hand to him and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.
Contemporary English Version
Instead, be kind and lend them what they need.
Complete Jewish Bible
No, you must open your hand to him and lend him enough to meet his need and enable him to obtain what he wants.
Darby Translation
but thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto him, and shalt certainly lend him on pledge what is sufficient for his need, [in that] which he lacketh.
Easy-to-Read Version
You must be willing to share with them. You must lend them whatever they need.
George Lamsa Translation
But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely lend him whatsoever he lacks.
Good News Translation
Instead, be generous and lend them as much as they need.
Literal Translation
But opening you shall open your hand to him, and lending you shall lend him enough for his need in that which he lacks.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but shalt open thine hande vnto him, and lende him, acordinge as he hath nede.
American Standard Version
but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But thou shalt open thine hande vnto hym, and lende hym sufficient for his neede which he hath.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.
King James Version (1611)
But thou shalt open thine hand wide vnto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his neede, in that which he wanteth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt surely open thine hands to him, and shalt lend to him as much as he wants according to his need.
English Revised Version
but thou shalt surely open thine hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.
Berean Standard Bible
Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but thou schalt opene it to the pore man, and thou schalt `yyue loone to which thou siest hym haue nede.
Young's Literal Translation
for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh.
Update Bible Version
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.
Webster's Bible Translation
But thou shalt open thy hand wide to him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he wanteth.
World English Bible
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.
New King James Version
but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs.
New Living Translation
Instead, be generous and lend them whatever they need.
New Life Bible
Be free to give to him. Let him use what is yours of anything he needs.
New Revised Standard
You should rather open your hand, willingly lending enough to meet the need, whatever it may be.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
but thou shalt, open, thy hand unto him, - and, lend, him enough to meet the poverty which doth impoverish him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But shalt open it to the poor man, thou shalt lend him, that which thou perceivest he hath need of.
Revised Standard Version
but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.

Contextual Overview

1 At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt. 2 This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord. 3 A man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your brother has anything of yours, let it go; 4 But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage; 5 If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today. 6 For the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he has said: you will let other nations have the use of your money, but you will not make use of theirs; you will be rulers over a number of nations, but they will not be your rulers. 7 If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him; 8 But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of. 9 And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you. 10 But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:35 - thy brother Deuteronomy 15:11 - Thou shalt Deuteronomy 24:10 - When Psalms 37:26 - merciful Isaiah 16:14 - three Luke 6:34 - General Luke 11:41 - rather Romans 12:8 - giveth

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.
Genesis 15:4
Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body will have your property after you.
Genesis 15:9
And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.
Genesis 15:10
All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two.
Genesis 15:13
And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;
Genesis 15:14
But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.
Genesis 15:17
Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies.
2 Kings 20:8
And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is to be the sign that the Lord will make me well, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?
Psalms 86:17
Give me a sign for good; so that my haters may see it and be shamed; because you, Lord, have been my help and comfort.
Isaiah 7:11
Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him,.... And give him bountifully and liberally; in order to which the heart must be first opened, the affections moved, and a willing mind disposed to give generously:

and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth: enough to answer his present exigencies, but not to cause him to abound, or to supply him with things needless and superfluous.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The year of release is no doubt identical with the sabbatical year of the earlier legislation (Exodus 23:10 ff, and Leviticus 25:2 ff), the command of the older legislation being here amplified. The release was probably for the year, not total and final, and had reference only to loans lent because of poverty (compare Deuteronomy 15:4, Deuteronomy 15:7). Yet even so the law was found to be too stringent for the avarice of the people, because it was one of those which the rabbis “made of none effect by their traditions.”

Deuteronomy 15:2

Because it is called the Lord’s release - Render, because proclamation has been made of the Lord’s release. The verb is impersonal, and implies (compare Deuteronomy 31:10) that “the solemnity of the year of release” has been publicly announced.

Deuteronomy 15:3

The foreigner would not be bound by the restriction of the sabbatical year, and therefore would have no claim to its special remissions and privileges. He could earn his usual income in the seventh as in other years, and therefore is not exonerated from liability to discharge a debt anymore in the one than the others.

Deuteronomy 15:4

There is no inconsistency between this and Deuteronomy 15:11. The meaning seems simply to be, “Thou must release the debt for the year, except when there be no poor person concerned, a contingency which may happen, for the Lord shall greatly bless thee.” The general object of these precepts, as also of the year of Jubilee and the laws respecting inheritance, is to prevent the total ruin of a needy person, and his disappearance from the families of Israel by the sale of his patrimony.

Deuteronomy 15:9

literally: “Beware that there be not in thy heart a word which is worthlessness” (compare Deuteronomy 13:13 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 15:8. Thou shalt open thine hand wide — Thy benevolence shall be in proportion to his distress and poverty, and thy ability. Thou shalt have no other rule to regulate thy charity by.


 
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