For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, you shall open your hand wide unto your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Needy. Hebrew expresses the order to be observed in giving alms, "open thy hand wide (give with profusion) to thy brother, (or relations) to thy needy, (in extreme want) and to thy poor in the land "whoever they may be. (Calmet) To exercise the charity of his people, God suffered some to be poor. (Worthington)

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