The NEEDY man, and beside him the POOR one — two words this project keeps apart because Deuteronomy 15:11 uses both in one breath: open your hand to your brother, to your ani and to your evyon. An ani is afflicted, bowed down, of low estate — the word is built on the root behind oni, affliction, which is what God says he has seen in Egypt. An evyon is destitute in the practical sense: the one who has nothing and must ask. ⭐ It is chapter 15’s own word — of the five verses in Deuteronomy that carry it, FOUR are in this chapter (15:4, 15:7, 15:9, 15:11), and the fifth is 24:14, where a hired man who is ani ve-evyon must be paid before sundown. ⚠ It is also the word Exodus 23:11 uses of who eats from the fallow field in the seventh year — so both seventh-year laws, the one about land and the one about debt, are aimed at the same man. Thirty-six verses in the whole Hebrew Bible carry it, most of them in the Psalms and the prophets. ⚠ The shelf mostly flattens the pair: the KJV reads ‘poor’ for both at 15:11 (‘thy poor, and to thy needy’ keeps them, but 15:4, 7 and 9 all read ‘poor’), and the NIV uses ‘poor’ and ‘needy’ without a fixed assignment. The ASV and NWT keep the distinction most consistently. ⭐ The bare pair ani ve-evyon, poor and needy, stands in eleven verses of the Hebrew Bible, and Deuteronomy 24:14 (now on these pages), the hired man who may not be oppressed, is the only one in the Torah; the other ten are psalms and prophets — Jeremiah 22:16, where judging their cause is what it means to know God, and Ezekiel 16:49 (not yet on these pages), where not strengthening their hand is the sin of Sodom. → first discussed at Deut 15:4