Open your hand to your brothers and sisters.
“If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in
any of your towns within your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall
not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you
shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it
may be. Take heed lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, ‘The
seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye be hostile to your
poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and
it be sin in you. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be
grudging when you give to him; because for this the LORD your God will bless
you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For the poor will never
cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hand
to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in the land.” – Deuteronomy 15:7-11
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