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God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the LORD sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own
your God will surely require it of you, and it garment and bless you; and it shall be righ-
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would be sin to you. But if you abstain from teousness to you before the LORD your God.
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vowing, it shall not be sin to you. That which 14 “You shall not oppress a hired servant who
has gone from your lips you shall keep and per- is poor and needy, whether one of your
form, for you voluntarily vowed to the LORD your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your
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God what you have promised with your mouth. land within your gates. Each day you shall
24 “When you come into your neighbor’s give him his wages, and not let the sun go
vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart
your pleasure, but you shall not put any in on it; lest he cry out against you to the LORD,
your container. When you come into your and it be sin to you.
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neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the 16 “Fathers shall not be put to death for their
heads with your hand, but you shall not use a children, nor shall children be put to death
sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain. for their fathers; a person shall be put to
“When a man takes a wife and marries death for his own sin.
24 her, and it happens that she finds no 17 “You shall not pervert justice due the
favor in his eyes because he has found some stranger or the fatherless, nor take a widow’s
uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certif- garment as a pledge. But you shall remem-
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icate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends ber that you were a slave in Egypt, and the
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her out of his house, when she has departed LORD your God redeemed you from there;
from his house, and goes and becomes anoth- therefore I command you to do this thing.
er man’s wife, if the latter husband detests her 19 “When you reap your harvest in your field,
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and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go
her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if back to get it; it shall be for the stranger, the
the latter husband dies who took her as his fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your
wife, then her former husband who divorced God may bless you in all the work of your
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her must not take her back to be his wife after hands. When you beat your olive trees, you
she has been defiled; for that is an abomination shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be
before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
the land which the LORD your God is giving 21 When you gather the grapes of your vine-
you as an inheritance. yard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall
5 “When a man has taken a new wife, he shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the
not go out to war or be charged with any busi- widow. And you shall remember that you
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ness; he shall be free at home one year, and were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I
bring happiness to his wife whom he has command you to do this thing.
taken.
6 “No man shall take the lower or the upper Psalm 39:1–6
millstone in pledge, for he takes one’s living in To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun.
pledge. A Psalm of David.
7 “If a man is found kidnapping any of his
brethren of the children of Israel, and mis- I said, “I will guard my ways,
Lest I sin with my tongue;
treats him or sells him, then that kidnapper I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
shall die; and you shall put away the evil from While the wicked are before me.”
among you. 2 I was mute with silence,
8 “Take heed in an outbreak of leprosy, that
you carefully observe and do according to all I held my peace even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred up.
that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you; 3 My heart was hot within me;
just as I commanded them, so you shall be While I was musing, the fire burned.
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careful to do. Remember what the LORD your Then I spoke with my tongue:
God did to Miriam on the way when you came
out of Egypt! 4 “LORD, make me to know my end,
10 “When you lend your brother anything, And what is the measure of my days,
you shall not go into his house to get his That I may know how frail I am.
pledge. You shall stand outside, and the man 5 Indeed, You have made my days as
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to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to handbreadths,
you. And if the man is poor, you shall not And my age is as nothing before You;
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keep his pledge overnight. You shall in any Certainly every man at his best state is
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case return the pledge to him again when the but vapor. Selah
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