Leviticus 25:35
And if your brother be becoming poor, and fallen in decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
34But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
36Take you no interest of him, or increase: but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.
Cross References
Exodus 23:9Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for all of you know the heart of a stranger, seeing all of you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 25:25If your brother be becoming poor, and has sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
Deuteronomy 15:7If there be among you a poor man of one of your brethren within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden yours heart, nor shut yours hand from your poor brother:
Deuteronomy 24:14You shall not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brethren, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates:
Job 31:16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Psalms 41:1Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:24-39
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; 27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto… Read the whole commentary →