Deuteronomy 24:7-17

7 If someone kidnaps a fellow Israelite, either to make him a slave or sell him, the kidnapper must be killed. You must get rid of the evil among you.
8 Be careful when someone has a skin disease. Do exactly what the priests, the Levites, teach you, being careful to do what I have commanded them.
9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on your way out of Egypt.
10 When you make a loan to your neighbors, don't go into their homes to get something in place of it.
11 Stay outside and let them go in and get what they promised you.
12 If a poor person gives you a coat to show he will pay the loan back, don't keep it overnight.
13 Give the coat back at sunset, because your neighbor needs that coat to sleep in, and he will be grateful to you. And the Lord your God will see that you have done a good thing.
14 Don't cheat hired servants who are poor and needy, whether they are fellow Israelites or foreigners living in one of your towns.
15 Pay them each day before sunset, because they are poor and need the money. Otherwise,they may complain to the Lord about you, and you will be guilty of sin.
16 Parents must not be put to death if their children do wrong, and children must not be put to death if their parents do wrong. Each person must die for his own sin.
17 Do not be unfair to a foreigner or an orphan. Don't take a widow's coat to make sure she pays you back.

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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