Deuteronomy 24:14

Work Poverty and the vulnerable Justice The stranger and outcast

¹² If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;

¹³ be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.

Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

¹⁵ You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

¹⁶ Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
KJV: Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
WEB: You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
ASV: Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates:
DARBY: Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant [who is] poor and needy of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates:
BLB: You shall not oppress a hireling [who is] poor and needy, one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who [is] in your land within your gates.

ÅB: Du skal ikke gjøre urett mot en nødlidende og fattig dagarbeider, enten han er en av dine brødre eller en av de fremmede som bor i ditt land, rundt om i dine byer;
OTB: Ikke utnytt en leid arbeider som er fattig og trengende, enten de er en medisraelitt eller en fremmed som bor i dine byer.
B1930: Du skal ikke gjøre urett mot en nødlidende og fattig dagarbeider, enten han er en av dine brødre eller en av de fremmede som bor i ditt land, rundt om i dine byer;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Malachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
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Proverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
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Proverbs 22:16
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
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Job 24:10–11
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
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Amos 4:1
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
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Job 31:13–15
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
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Deuteronomy 15:12–18
If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
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Leviticus 25:35–43
Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
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