Deuteronomy 24:10-15
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10 “When you make your neighbor a loan of any kind, you shall not go into the house to take the pledge. 11 You shall wait outside while the person to whom you are making the loan brings the pledge out to you. 12 If the person is poor, you shall not sleep in the garment given you as[a] the pledge. 13 You shall give the pledge back by sunset, so that your neighbor may sleep in the cloak and bless you, and it will be to your credit before the Lord your God.(A)
14 “You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of your towns.(B) 15 You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.(C)
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- 24.12 Heb lacks the garment given you as
Deuteronomy 24:10-15
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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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