Deuteronomy 15:7-8
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[7] If there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers, within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; [8] but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageEgypt was the land where Israel had been enslaved before the Lord redeemed them in the exodus. That memory reinforces this command to openhanded generosity: God’s redeemed people are not to treat needy fellow Israelites with the hardness associated with oppression.
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Deuteronomy 15:7-8 mentions Egypt.
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