Deuteronomy 24:7-17

7 "If a man is discovered kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him,[a] the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from you.
8 "Be careful in a case of infectious skin disease, following carefully everything the Levitical priests instruct you to do. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.
9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.[b]

Consideration for People in Need

10 "When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security.
11 You must stand outside while the man you are making the loan to brings the security out to you.
12 If he is a poor man, you must not sleep in [the garment] he has given as security.
13 Be sure to return it[c] to him at sunset. Then he will sleep in it and bless you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you before the Lord your God.[d]
14 "Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town[e] in your land.
15 You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them.[f] Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty.
16 "Fathers are not to be put to death for [their] children or children for [their] fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.[g]
17 Do not deny justice to a foreign resident [or] fatherless child, and do not take a widow's garment as security.

Deuteronomy 24:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 24

This chapter contains various laws concerning divorces, De 24:1-4; the discharge of a newly married man from war and business, De 24:5; about taking pledges, De 24:6,10-13; man stealing, De 24:7; the plague of leprosy, De 24:8,9; and giving servants their hire in due time, De 24:14,15; concerning doing justice in capital cases, and towards the stranger, fatherless, and widow, De 24:16-18; and of charity to the poor, in allowing them the forgotten sheaf, and the gleanings of their oliveyards and vineyards, De 24:19-22.

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