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Remember, after all, what the LORD your God did to Miriam on your departure from Egypt!
Loans
10 When you make any type of loan to your neighbor, don't enter their house to receive the collateral.
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You must wait outside. The person to whom you are lending will bring the collateral to you out there.
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Moreover, if the person is poor, you are not allowed to sleep in their pawned coat.
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Instead, be certain to give the pawned coat back by sunset so they can sleep in their own coat. They will bless you, and you will be considered righteous before the LORD your God.
Payment for workers
14 Don't take advantage of poor or needy workers, whether they are fellow Israelites or immigrants who live in your land or your cities.
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Pay them their salary the same day, before the sun sets, because they are poor, and their very life depends on that pay, and so they don't cry out against you to the LORD. That would make you guilty.
Generational punishment
16 Parents shouldn't be executed because of what their children have done; neither should children be executed because of what their parents have done. Each person should be executed for their own guilty acts.
Rights of widows, orphans, and immigrants
17 Don't obstruct the legal rights of an immigrant or orphan. Don't take a widow's coat as pledge for a loan.
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Remember how you were a slave in Egypt but how the LORD your God saved you from that. That's why I'm commanding you to do this thing.
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Whenever you are reaping the harvest of your field and you leave some grain in the field, don't go back and get it. Let it go to the immigrants, the orphans, and the widows so that the LORD your God blesses you in all that you do.