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Deuteronomy 15:2
New English Translation
Deuteronomy 15:2
New English Translation
2 This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person;[a] he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite,[b] for it is to be recognized as “the Lord’s cancellation of debts.”
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- Deuteronomy 15:2 tn Heb “his neighbor,” used idiomatically to refer to another person.
- Deuteronomy 15:2 tn Heb “his neighbor and his brother.” The words “his brother” may be a scribal gloss identifying “his neighbor” (on this idiom, see the preceding note) as a fellow Israelite (cf. v. 3). In this case the conjunction before “his brother” does not introduce a second category, but rather has the force of “that is.”
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