¹³ Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

⁴ See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

⁵ And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

¹⁴ Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

¹⁵ Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.

¹⁹ You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.

²⁹ The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

¹³ A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

³ This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

²² Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

¹⁰ Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

³⁹ If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

²⁴ And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

²⁵ If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

²⁶ If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down:

²⁷ For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.

⁸ If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods.

⁹ In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value.

⁶ And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.

¹³ And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.

³ And the priest is to put on his linen robes and his linen trousers, and take up what is over of the offering after it has been burned on the altar, and put it by the side of the altar.

²¹ Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.

¹⁵ If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment.

¹³ But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to make this clear, he will not have to make payment for what was damaged.