Deuteronomy 24:6-22

Sundry Laws

6 "No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.

7 "¹If a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.

8 "²Be careful against an infection of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

9 "Remember what the LORD your God did ³to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.

10 "⁴When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.

11 "You shall remain outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.

12 "If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

13 "⁵When the sun goes down you shall surely return the pledge to him, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and ⁶it will be righteousness for you before the LORD your God.

14 "⁷You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.

15 "⁸You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it; so that ⁹he will not cry against you to the LORD and it become sin in you.

16 "¹⁰Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.

17 "¹¹You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor ¹²take a widow's garment in pledge.

18 "But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore * I am commanding you to do this thing.

19 "¹³When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be ¹⁴for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the LORD your God ¹⁵may bless you in all the work of your hands.

20 "¹⁶When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be ¹⁷for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

21 "When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

22 "You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore * I am commanding you to do this thing.

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Deuteronomy 24:6-22 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 17

1. Exodus 21:16
2. Lev 13:1-14, 57
3. Numbers 12:10
4. Exodus 22:26, 27
5. Exodus 22:26
6. Deuteronomy 6:25; Psalms 106:31; Daniel 4:27
7. Leviticus 19:13; Leviticus 25:35-43; Deuteronomy 15:7-18; Proverbs 14:31; Amos 4:1; 1 Timothy 5:18
8. Leviticus 19:13; Jeremiah 22:13; James 5:4
9. Exodus 22:23; Deuteronomy 15:9; Job 35:9; James 5:4
10. 2 Kings 14:6; 2 Chronicles 25:4; Jeremiah 31:29, 30; Ezekiel 18:20
11. Exodus 23:9; Leviticus 19:33; Deuteronomy 1:17; Deuteronomy 10:17; Deuteronomy 16:19; Deuteronomy 27:19
12. Exodus 22:22
13. Leviticus 19:9, 10; Leviticus 23:22
14. Deuteronomy 14:29
15. Proverbs 19:17
16. Leviticus 19:10
17. Deuteronomy 24:19

Footnotes 16

[a]. Lit "found stealing"
[b]. Lit "brothers"
[c]. Lit "a mark" or "stroke"
[d]. Lit "brothers"
[e]. Lit "gates"
[f]. Lit "that the sun shall not go down on it"
[g]. Lit "soul"
[h]. Or "with"
[i]. Or "with"
[j]. Lit "of"
[k]. Or "the fatherless"
[l]. Or "fatherless"
[m]. Lit "after yourself"
[n]. Or "fatherless"
[o]. Lit "glean it after yourself"
[p]. Or "fatherless"