Deuteronomy 15:11 BSB

Deuteronomy 15:11

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.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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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Commentary

3 voices

Bonaventure

Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection, Question 2 (1257)

Just as that law, Deuteronomy 15: There shall be no needy person or beggar among you, was not given against the mendicancy of the poor, but against the tightfistedness of the rich — which is clear from the fact that in the same chapter it …

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For the poor shall never cease out of the land - To this passage our Lord appears to allude Mar 14:7: For ye have the poor with you always. God leaves these in mercy among men to exercise the feelings of compassion, tenderness, mercy, etc. And without occasions afforded to exercise these, man would soon become a Stoic or a brute.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

For the poor shall never cease out of the land--Although every Israelite on the conquest of Canaan became the owner of property, yet in the providence of God who foresaw the event, it was permitted, partly as a punishment of disobedience and partly for the exercise of benevolent and charitable feelings, that "the poor should never cease out of the land." De 15:12-19.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֛י	ki	for	H3588 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יֶחְדַּ֥ל	yech.Dal	he will cease	H2308 →
אֶבְי֖וֹן	'ev.Yon	[the] needy	H34 →
מִקֶּ֣רֶב	mi.Ke.rev	from [the] midst of	H7130 →
הָאָ֑רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the land	H776 →
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּ֞ן	ken	-fore	H3651 →
אָנֹכִ֤י	'a.no.Khi	I	H595 →
מְצַוְּךָ֙	me.tza.ve.Kha	[am] commanding you	H6680 →
לֵאמֹ֔ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
פָּ֠תֹחַ	Pa.to.ach	certainly <to open>	H6605 →
תִּפְתַּ֨ח	tif.Tach	you will open	H6605 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יָדְךָ֜	ya.de.Kha	hand your	H3027 →
לְאָחִ֧יךָ	le.'a.Chi.kha	to countryman your	H251 →
לַעֲנִיֶּ֛ךָ	la.'a.ni.Ye.kha	to poor [person] your	H6041 →
וּלְאֶבְיֹנְךָ֖	u.le.'ev.yo.ne.Kha	and to needy [person] your	H34 →
בְּאַרְצֶֽךָ׃ ס	be.'ar.Tze.kha	in land your	H776 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 12:8
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”
leads to
- Mark 14:7
  The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 26:11
  The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 13:33
  Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 12:35
  Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the…
- John 8:21
  Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
Through
Matthew 26:11
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.
leads to
- John 16:28
  I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 12:8
  The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”
Through
Deuteronomy 15:8
Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
leads to
- Luke 6:34
  And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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06About Deuteronomy

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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