11 Il y aura toujours des indigents dans le pays; c'est pourquoi je te donne ce commandement: Tu ouvriras ta main à ton frère, au pauvre et à l'indigent dans ton pays.
8 Vous avez toujours les pauvres avec vous, mais vous ne m'avez pas toujours.
In Deuteronomy 15:1–23 we have the Sabbath year, where there are some debts that are forgiven to the people of God. And God here encourages His people to be a merciful people who give unto the poor and give with what He calls an open hand. And He reminds them that within our hearts we have the tendency to give grudgingly if we don't think we are going to get something in return. But God encourages us to give with an open hand.
It is interesting that as you look at the text, Deuteronomy 15:7 says,
Nathan EshelmanIf among you, one of your brothers should become poor…And then there is the encouragement to help and to show mercy in the midst of those that are poor. Then after that encouragement of,If this happens, I want you to give, [it says],I want you to be open handed in your giving. Now, if you have an open hand when you give and [it is full] with silver bullion, what can you get from [that] hand? Whatever you want! Because [that] hand is open, so you can take from the open hand. And God says that as we look at the poor (and it is in the context here of the covenant community within the church), as we look around and we say,There are needs here, and there are needs here and there are needs here, what should our response be? God says,If you find the poor in your midst, you give with an open hand.And then He says, Oh and by the way, the poor will always be there.”1
4 Toutefois, il n'y aura point d'indigent chez toi, car l'Eternel te bénira dans le pays que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, te fera posséder en héritage,