¹² And if the man is poor, you shall not ^[a]keep his pledge overnight. ^13 (A)You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and ^(B)bless you; and ^(C)it shall be righteousness to you before the Lord your God.

¹⁴ “You shall not ^(D)oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates. ¹⁵ Each day ^(E)you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; ^(F)lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.

^16 (G)“Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin.

^17 (H)“You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, ^(I)nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge.

^26 (A)If you ever take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down. ²⁷ For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it will be that when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am ^(B)gracious.

^21 (A)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and ^(B)the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the ^(C)Lord’s table and of the table of demons.

^7 (A)And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, ^(B)“The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

¹⁰ For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not ^(A)the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?

God’s Punishments Have Not Reformed Israel