13 (A)‘You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him. (B)The wages of him who is hired shall not remain with you all night until morning.

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Indeed (A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and (B)the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of [a]Sabaoth.

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Footnotes

  1. James 5:4 Lit., in Heb., Hosts

And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
(A)Against perjurers,
Against those who (B)exploit wage earners and (C)widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

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14 “You shall not (A)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 (B)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; (C)lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.

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13 “Woe(A) to him who builds his house by unrighteousness
And his [a]chambers by injustice,
(B)Who uses his neighbor’s service without wages
And gives him nothing for his work,

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  1. Jeremiah 22:13 Lit. roof chambers, upper chambers

10 (A)Diverse weights and diverse measures,
They are both alike, an abomination to the Lord.

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19 You know the commandments: (A)‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’

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29 The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully (A)oppress the stranger.

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Thus says the Lord: (A)“Execute[a] judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the (B)fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

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  1. Jeremiah 22:3 Dispense justice

21 (A)“You shall neither mistreat a [a]stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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  1. Exodus 22:21 sojourner

15 If its owner was with it, he shall not make it good; if it was hired, it came for its hire.

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that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord (A)is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.

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13 And he said to them, (A)“Collect no more than what is appointed for you.”

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22 Do not rob the (A)poor because he is poor,
Nor oppress the afflicted at the gate;

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39 If (A)I have eaten its [a]fruit without money,
Or (B)caused its owners to lose their lives;

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  1. Job 31:39 Lit. strength

24 and My (A)wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; (B)your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

25 (C)“If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him (D)interest. 26 (E)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 (F)gracious.

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or if he (A)has found what was lost and lies concerning it, and (B)swears falsely—in any one of these things that a man may do in which he sins:

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If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the (A)judges to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor’s goods.

“For any kind of trespass, whether it concerns an ox, a donkey, a sheep, or clothing, or for any kind of lost thing which another claims to be his, the (B)cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whomever the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.

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13 If it is (A)torn to pieces by a beast, then he shall bring it as evidence, and he shall not make good what was torn.

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