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“If there is among you anyone in need, a member of your community in any of your towns within the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor.(A)

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If anyone is poor(A) among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted(B) toward them.

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If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

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You should rather open your hand, willingly lending enough to meet the need, whatever it may be.(A)

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Rather, be openhanded(A) and freely lend them whatever they need.

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But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

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10 Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.(A)

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10 Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart;(A) then because of this the Lord your God will bless(B) you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to.

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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.

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26 All day long the wicked covet,[a]
    but the righteous give and do not hold back.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 21.26 Gk: Heb all day long one covets covetously

26 All day long he craves for more,
    but the righteous(A) give without sparing.(B)

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26 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

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