11 For someone poor will never cease to be in the midst of the land.+ That is why I am commanding you, saying, ‘You should generously open up your hand to your afflicted and poor brother* in your land.’+

24 There exists the one that is scattering and yet is being increased;+ also the one that is keeping back from what is right, but it results only in want.+

17 He that is showing favor to the lowly one is lending to Jehovah,+ and his treatment He will repay to him.+

2 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight,+ for you do not know what calamity will occur on the earth.+

9 (Just as it is written: “He has distributed widely, he has given to the poor ones, his righteousness* continues forever.”+