24:14 You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites 3 or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages. 4 24:15 You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
1 tn Heb “You shall not oppress your neighbor and you shall not rob.”
2 tn Heb “hold back with you”; perhaps “hold back for yourself” (cf. NRSV “keep for yourself”).
3 tn Heb “your brothers,” but not limited only to actual siblings; cf. NASB “your (+ own NAB) countrymen.”
4 tn Heb “who are in your land in your gates.” The word “living” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Or “no traveler’s bag”; or possibly “no beggar’s bag” (L&N 6.145; BDAG 811 s.v. πήρα).
6 tn Grk “two tunics.” See the note on the word “tunic” in Matt 5:40.
7 sn Mark 6:8 allows one staff. It might be that Matthew’s summary (cf. Luke 9:3) means not taking an extra staff or that the expression is merely rhetorical for “traveling light” which has been rendered in two slightly different ways.
8 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
9 tn Grk “eating and drinking the things from them” (an idiom for what the people in the house provide the guests).
10 sn On the phrase the worker deserves his pay see 1 Tim 5:18 and 1 Cor 9:14.