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14 “You shall not exploit a hired worker, who is needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from among your aliens[a] who are in your land and in your towns.[b] 15 On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go down,[c] because he is poor and his life depends on it;[d] do this so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, and you incur guilt.[e]

16 “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, and children shall not be put to death because of their fathers; each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:14 Hebrew “alien”
  2. Deuteronomy 24:14 Literally “gates”
  3. Deuteronomy 24:15 Literally “over him”
  4. Deuteronomy 24:15 Literally “and to him it is a lifting up with respect to his life/soul”
  5. Deuteronomy 24:15 Literally “and it becomes against you as sin