¹⁴ Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.^(A)

¹⁵ Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor^(A) and are counting on it.^(B) Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.^(C)

¹⁴ And the Lord directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws^(A) you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.