Genesis 37:27

37:27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, ¹  for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed. ² 

Isaiah 58:7

58:7 I want you ³  to share your food with the hungry

and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. ⁴ 

When you see someone naked, clothe him!

Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood! ⁵ 

James 2:5-6

2:5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! ⁶  Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him? 2:6 But you have dishonored the poor! ⁷  Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

¹ tn Heb “let not our hand be upon him.”

² tn Heb “listened.”

³ tn Heb “Is it not?” The rhetorical question here expects a positive answer, “It is!”

⁴ tn Heb “and afflicted [ones], homeless [ones] you should bring [into] a house.” On the meaning of מְרוּדִים (mÿrudim, “homeless”) see HALOT 633 s.v. *מָרוּד.

⁵ tn Heb “and from your flesh do not hide yourself.”

⁶ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

⁷ tn This is singular: “the poor person,” perhaps referring to the hypothetical one described in vv. 2-3.