Levítico 25:35

35 Rescate de los pobres y de los esclavos
»Si alguno de tus hermanos israelitas se empobrece y no puede sostenerse a sí mismo, ayúdalo como lo harías con un extranjero o un residente temporal y permítele vivir contigo.

Levítico 25:35 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:35

And if thy brother be waxen poor
An Israelite, as Aben Ezra, be reduced to a low estate, through afflictions in body, or in family, or through losses in trade, or want of business, or through one providence or another: and fallen in decay with thee;
in his worldly substance: or "his hand wavers", or "fails" ^F16; so that he cannot support himself and his family, has not a sufficiency, or it is not in the power of his hands to do it; and it is not owing to sloth and negligence, but to unavoidable want and necessity: then thou shalt relieve him;
not merely by sympathizing with him, but by communicating to him, and distributing to his necessities; holding him up that he may not utterly fall, and strengthening his hands, that he may have a supply for his present wants: [yea, though he be] a stranger or a sojourner;
whether a proselyte of righteousness, who is circumcised, and in all things conforms to the true religion; or a proselyte of the gate, who takes it upon him not to worship idols, and eat things that die of themselves, as Jarchi notes: that he may live with thee;
continue in the land of Canaan, and not be obliged to quit it, and be laid under temptations of apostatizing from the true religion professed by him, and so far as he is come into it, which would bring a worse death than corporeal upon him; or that he may have a livelihood in some tolerable manner at least, and even live comfortably and cheerfully.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (wdy hjmw) "et nutaverit manus ejus", Montanus, Vatablus, Fagius; "vacillabit", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Levítico 25:35 In-Context

33 Y cualquier propiedad que los levitas vendan —todas las casas dentro de las ciudades de los levitas— tendrá que ser devuelta en el año de jubileo. Después de todo, las casas dentro de las ciudades reservadas para los levitas son las únicas propiedades que ellos poseen en todo Israel.

34 Los pastizales que rodean las ciudades de los levitas nunca podrán venderse. Es su posesión perpetua.

35 Rescate de los pobres y de los esclavos
»Si alguno de tus hermanos israelitas se empobrece y no puede sostenerse a sí mismo, ayúdalo como lo harías con un extranjero o un residente temporal y permítele vivir contigo.

36 No le cobres intereses ni obtengas una ganancia a costa de él. En cambio, muestra tu temor a Dios al permitirle que viva contigo como si fuera un pariente.

37 Recuerda, no le cobres intereses sobre el dinero que le prestes ni obtengas una ganancia con los alimentos que le vendas.