Ulangan 8:2

8:2 Remember the whole way by which he ¹  has brought you these forty years through the desert ²  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Ulangan 15:7

The Spirit of Liberality

15:7 If a fellow Israelite ³  from one of your villages ⁴  in the land that the Lord your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive ⁵  to his impoverished condition. ⁶ 

[8:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:2]  ² tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.

[15:7]  ³ tn Heb “one of your brothers” (so NASB); NAB “one of your kinsmen”; NRSV “a member of your community.” See the note at v. 2.

[15:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “gates.”

[15:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “withdraw your hand.” Cf. NIV “hardhearted or tightfisted” (NRSV and NLT similar).

[15:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “from your needy brother.”