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No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge (24:6) If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you (24:7) Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, [so] ye shall observe to do (24:8) Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt (24:9) When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge (24:10) Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee (24:11) And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: (24:12) In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God (24:13) Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant [that is] poor and needy, [whether he be] of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that [are] in thy land within thy gates: (24:14) At his day thou shalt give [him] his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he [is] poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee (24:15) The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin (24:16) Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: (24:17) But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing (24:18) When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands (24:19) When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow (24:20) When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean [it] afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow (24:21) And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing
(24:22)
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