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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Deuteronomy 15
⁴ However, there will be no poor among you, since the Lord will surely bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess,
⁵ if only you listen obediently to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today.
⁶ For the Lord your God will bless you as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.
⁷ "If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother;
⁸ but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.
⁹ Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, ’The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the Lord against you, and it will be a sin in you.
¹⁰ You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings.
¹¹ For the poor will never cease to be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, ’You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.’
¹² "If your kinsman, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall set him free.
¹³ When you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed.
¹⁴ You shall furnish him liberally from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the Lord your God has blessed you.