Deu 15:2 | NETfull | STEP | This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as “the Lord ’s cancellation of debts.”

Deuteronomy 15:2

2 This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; ^{▼▼ Heb “his neighbor,” used idiomatically to refer to another person.} he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, ^{▼▼ Heb “his neighbor and his brother.” The words “his brother” may be a scribal gloss identifying “his neighbor” (on this idiom, see the preceding note) as a fellow Israelite (cf. v. 3). In this case the conjunction before “his brother” does not introduce a second category, but rather has the force of “that is.”} for it is to be recognized as “the Lord’s cancellation of debts.”