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.
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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.
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Be sure to return it 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.
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 in your land.
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You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them. 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.
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Do not deny justice to a foreign resident [or] fatherless child, and do not take a widow's garment as security.
18
Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
19
"When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreign resident, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
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When you knock down the fruit from your olive tree, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreign resident, the fatherless, and the widow.
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When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not glean what is left. What remains will be for the foreign resident, the fatherless, and the widow.
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Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.