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Leviticus 19:13

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19:13 You must not oppress your neighbor or commit robbery against him. 1  You must not withhold 2  the wages of the hired laborer overnight until morning.

Deuteronomy 24:15

Context
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.

Malachi 3:5

Context

3:5 “I 3  will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, 4  and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, 5  who refuse to help 6  the immigrant 7  and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the Lord who rules over all.

James 5:4

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5:4 Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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[19:13]  1 tn Heb “You shall not oppress your neighbor and you shall not rob.”

[19:13]  2 tn Heb “hold back with you”; perhaps “hold back for yourself” (cf. NRSV “keep for yourself”).

[3:5]  3 tn The first person pronoun (a reference to the Lord) indicates that the Lord himself now speaks (see also v. 1). The prophet speaks in vv. 2-4 (see also 2:17).

[3:5]  4 tn Heb “those who swear [oaths] falsely.” Cf. NIV “perjurers”; TEV “those who give false testimony”; NLT “liars.”

[3:5]  5 tn Heb “and against the oppressors of the worker for a wage, [the] widow and orphan.”

[3:5]  6 tn Heb “those who turn aside.”

[3:5]  7 tn Or “resident foreigner”; NIV “aliens”; NRSV “the alien.”



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