Deuteronomy 15:3 You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you.

English Standard Version
Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.

New American Standard Bible
"From a foreigner you may exact it, but your hand shall release whatever of yours is with your brother.

King James Bible
Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you."

International Standard Version
You may exact payment from a foreigner, but cancel whatever your brother owes you.

American Standard Version
Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it: but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy countryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again.

Darby Bible Translation
Of the foreigner thou mayest demand it; but what is thine with thy brother thy hand shall release;

Young's Literal Translation
of the stranger thou mayest exact, and that which is thine with thy brother doth thy hand release;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

15:1-11 This year of release typified the grace of the gospel, in which is proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord; and by which we obtain the release of our debts, that is, the pardon of our sins. The law is spiritual, and lays restraints upon the thoughts of the heart. We mistake, if we think thoughts are free from God's knowledge and check. That is a wicked heart indeed, which raises evil thoughts from the good law of God, as theirs did, who, because God had obliged them to the charity of forgiving, denied the charity of giving. Those who would keep from the act of sin, must keep out of their minds the very thought of sin. It is a dreadful thing to have the cry of the poor justly against us. Grudge not a kindness to thy brother; distrust not the providence of God. What thou doest, do freely, for God loves a cheerful giver, 2Co 9:7.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again—Admission to all the religious privileges of the Israelites was freely granted to heathen proselytes, though this spiritual incorporation did not always imply an equal participation of civil rights and privileges (Le 25:44; Jer 34:14; compare 1Ch 22:2; 2Ch 2:17).