Deuteronomy 15:11

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.

— The Restored Word Bible

Context

9 Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you givest him nought; and he cry unto the Yahuah against you, and it be sin unto you.

10 you shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you givest unto him: because that for this thing the Yahuah your Elohim shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you puttest your hand unto.

11 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.

12 if your brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

13 And when you sendest him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty:

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