Deuteronomy 24:14 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁴ Thou shalt not withhold the wages of a poor and needy man, whether he be one of thy brethren, or of the strangers who are in thy cities.

³⁵ And if thy brother who is with thee become poor and distressed in his circumstances when near thee, thou shalt help him, as a proselyte or a sojourner, and thy brother shall live with thee. ³⁶ Thou shalt not take from him usury or increase, but thou shalt fear thy God, I the Lord; and thy brother shall live with thee. ³⁷ Thou shalt not lend him thy money on usury, nor give him thy victuals for an increase. ³⁸ I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Chanaan, and to be your God. ³⁹ And if thy brother who dwelleth by thee be humbled, and sold to thee, he shall not serve thee as a slave. ⁴⁰ He shall be with thee as a hireling, or a sojourner. Until the year of the release he shall work for thee, ⁴¹ and in the year of the release he shall go out, and his children with him, and shall go to his own family; to his paternal possession he shall haste away. ⁴² Because they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; he must not be sold as a slave. ⁴³ Thou shall not over burthen him with toil, but fear the Lord thy God.

¹² And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to thee, he shall serve thee six years; and on the seventh thou shalt send him away from thee, free. ¹³ And when thou shalt send him away free from thee, thou shalt not send him away empty. ¹⁴ Thou shalt furnish him liberally with provision for the journey, from thy flock and from thy corn, and thy wine. According as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, thou shalt give him; ¹⁵ and remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that thence the Lord thy God redeemed thee; therefore I command thee to do this thing. ¹⁶ And if he shall say to thee, I will not go away from thee, because he hath loved thee, and thy family, and is well with thee; ¹⁷ then thou shalt take an awl, and bore his ear against the door, and he shall be thy servant forever. And in the same manner thou shalt treat thy maid servant. ¹⁸ It shall not seem hard to thee that they are let go free from thee; for they have saved thee the wages of an hireling. He hath served thee six years. When the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all thou doest,

¹⁰ They have by injustice caused some to be naked; and robbed the hungry of their morsel. ¹¹ They have entrapped some unjustly in straits, and the path of justice they did not know.

¹³ If I have slighted the cause of my man servant or maid servant when they had a controversy with me, ¹⁴ what shall I do when the Lord maketh inquest? And when he visiteth, what answer shall I make? ¹⁵ Was not I formed in the womb as they were? And were we not alike fashioned in the belly?

³¹ He who oppresseth the poor, provoketh his maker; but he who honoureth him, compassionateth the distressed.

¹⁶ Some plunder the poor to increase their wealth and give to the rich to lessen it.

⁷ In thee they reviled father and mother; and in thee practised injustice against the stranger. They oppressed the widow and the orphan;

⁷ and dashed their sandals against the heads of the poor; and turned aside the way of the meek; and a son and a father went in unto the same handmaid. That they might profane the name of their God,

¹ Hear this word, ye heifers of Basanitis, ye who are on the mountain of Samaria; who tyrannise over the distressed and trample the needy, who say to your masters, Bring and let us drink.

⁴ [p] Hear this, I beseech you, ye who every morning oppress the needy, and by your tyranny drive the poor from the land, saying,

⁵ And I will bring to judgment before you and be a swift witness against sorcerers, and against adulteresses, and against them who swear by my name to a falsehood, and against them who deprive the hireling of his wages, and them who oppress the widow, and them who buffet the fatherless, and them who turn aside the cause of the stranger, and them who do not fear me, saith the Lord Almighty.

⁷ continue in the same family, eating and drinking such things as they have. For the labourer is worthy of his wages. Go not from one family to another.