Deuteronomy 15:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But you shall open your hands wide to him and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

To the contrary! Open your hand wide to them. You must generously lend them whatever they need.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Instead, you shall open your hand to the poor, and you shall lend to him whatever you perceive him to need.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But shalt open it to the poor man Thou shalt lend him that which thou perceivest he hath need of.

Deuteronomy 15:8 Cross References

Psalm 37:26

He is ever giving liberally and lending, and his children become a blessing.

Proverbs 19:17

He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Leviticus 25:35

“And if your brother becomes poor, and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.

Matthew 5:42

Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.

Luke 6:34

And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again.

Galatians 2:10

only they would have us remember the poor, which very thing I was eager to do.