“Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.”
If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother — the repetition emphasizes the prohibition against hardness (the Hebrew qasha) and closedness (the Hebrew tzar, literally narrow). The poor brother's kinship (the Hebrew ach, brother) demands familial care.
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