Deuteronomy 24:10-15
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Consideration for People in Need
10 “When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security. 11 You must stand outside while the man you are making the loan to brings the security out to you. 12 If he is a poor man, you must not sleep in the garment he has given as security. 13 Be sure to return it[a] to him at sunset. Then he will sleep in it and bless you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you before the Lord your God.(A)
14 “Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town[b] in your land. 15 You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them.(B) Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty.
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- Deuteronomy 24:13 Lit return what he has given as security
- Deuteronomy 24:14 Lit within the gates
Deuteronomy 24:10-15
Lexham English Bible
10 “When you make a loan to your neighbor, a loan of any kind, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge.[a] 11 You shall wait outside, and the man to whom you are lending, he shall bring the pledge outside to you. 12 And if he is a needy man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.[b] 13 You shall certainly return the pledge to him as the sun sets,[c] so that he may sleep in his cloak and may bless you, and it shall be considered righteousness on your behalf[d] before[e] Yahweh your God.
14 “You shall not exploit a hired worker, who is needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from among your aliens[f] who are in your land and in your towns.[g] 15 On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go down,[h] because he is poor and his life depends on it;[i] do this so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, and you incur guilt.[j]
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- Deuteronomy 24:10 Literally “to pledge with respect to his pledge”
- Deuteronomy 24:12 “His pledge” refers to “a garment given as pledge”
- Deuteronomy 24:13 Literally “as/at the moment of the going out of the sun”
- Deuteronomy 24:13 Literally “to you”
- Deuteronomy 24:13 Literally “to the face of”
- Deuteronomy 24:14 Hebrew “alien”
- Deuteronomy 24:14 Literally “gates”
- Deuteronomy 24:15 Literally “over him”
- Deuteronomy 24:15 Literally “and to him it is a lifting up with respect to his life/soul”
- Deuteronomy 24:15 Literally “and it becomes against you as sin
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