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Leviticus 25:14

The Scriptures 1998

‘And when you sell whatever to your neighbour or buy from the hand of your neighbour, do not exploit one another.

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‘Do not oppress your neighbour or rob him. The wages of him who is hired is not to remain with you all night until morning.

‘And do not oppress one another, but you shall fear your Elohim. For I am יהוה  your Elohim.

“They have despised father and mother within you. They have oppressed the stranger in your midst. They have wronged the fatherless and the widow within you.

“Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke?

But you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and that to your brothers!

And soldiers also asked him, saying, “And what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not intimidate anyone or accuse falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.”

Both hands are on the evil, to do it well. The prince asks for gifts, the judge seeks a bribe, and the great man speaks the desire of his being. And they weave it together.

“But your eyes and your heart are only upon your own greedy gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and on doing violence.”

He who walks righteously and speaks what is straight, he who rejects the gain of oppressions, who keeps his hands from accepting bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil –

For the vineyard of יהוה  of hosts is the house of Yisra’ĕ

“Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and denial of right-ruling and righteousness in a province, do not be astonished at the matter. For a higher than the high is guarding, and there are higher ones over them.

A leader who lacks understanding is a great oppressor, But the hater of greed prolongs his days.

He who increases his possessions by interest and profit Gathers it for him who shows favour to the poor.

A poor man who oppresses the poor Is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

One oppresses the poor to increase his wealth, Another gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, Let him also cry and not be heard.

He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, But he who esteems Him shows favour to the needy.

To defend the fatherless and the downtrodden; So that man who is of the earth no longer oppresses!

And Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.

And the children of Yisra’ĕ

‘According to the number of years after the Jubilee you buy from your neighbour, and according to the number of years of crops he sells to you.




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