Ulangan 15:9

15:9 Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude ¹  be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite ²  and you do not lend ³  him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you and you will be regarded as having sinned. ⁴ 

Ulangan 17:8

Appeal to a Higher Court

17:8 If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, ⁵  legal claim, ⁶  or assault ⁷  – matters of controversy in your villages ⁸  – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. ⁹ 

[15:9]  ¹ tn Heb “your eye.”

[15:9]  ² tn Heb “your needy brother.”

[15:9]  ³ tn Heb “give” (likewise in v. 10).

[15:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “it will be a sin to you.”

[17:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “between blood and blood.”

[17:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “between claim and claim.”

[17:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “between blow and blow.”

[17:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:8]  ⁹ tc Several Greek recensions add “to place his name there,” thus completing the usual formula to describe the central sanctuary (cf. Deut 12:5, 11, 14, 18; 16:6). However, the context suggests that the local Levitical towns, and not the central sanctuary, are in mind.