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申命记 24:14

“困苦貧窮的雇工,無論是你的兄弟,或是寄居在你的地上你的城裡的,你都不可欺壓他。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aliens;   Employee;   Employer;   Labor;   Master;   Oppression;   Poor;   Quotations and Allusions;   Servant;   Strangers;   Wages;   Thompson Chain Reference - Kindness-Cruelty;   Oppression;   The Topic Concordance - Masters;   Oppression;   Strangers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Injustice;   Masters;   Poor, the;   Servants;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Poor;   Servant;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Work;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Violence;   Work;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Justice;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Stranger;   Wages;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehoiakim;   Law;   Stranger;   Wages;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hireling;   Robbery;   Wages;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Leviticus;   Poverty;   Stranger;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherhood (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hireling, Hired Servant;   Pledge;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Justice;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aliens;   Baba Meẓi'a;   Gentile;   Pledges;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
困 苦 穷 乏 的 雇 工 , 无 论 是 你 的 弟 兄 或 是 在 你 城 里 寄 居 的 , 你 不 可 欺 负 他 。

Contextual Overview

14 Don't cheat hired servants who are poor and needy, whether they are fellow Israelites or foreigners living in one of your towns. 15 Pay them each day before sunset, because they are poor and need the money. Otherwise, they may complain to the Lord about you, and you will be guilty of sin. 16 Parents must not be put to death if their children do wrong, and children must not be put to death if their parents do wrong. Each person must die for his own sin. 17 Do not be unfair to a foreigner or an orphan. Don't take a widow's coat to make sure she pays you back. 18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the Lord your God saved you from there. That is why I am commanding you to do this. 19 When you are gathering your harvest in the field and leave behind a bundle of grain, don't go back and get it. Leave it there for foreigners, orphans, and widows so that the Lord your God can bless everything you do. 20 When you beat your olive trees to knock the olives off, don't beat the trees a second time. Leave what is left for foreigners, orphans, and widows. 21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, don't pick the vines a second time. Leave what is left for foreigners, orphans, and widows. 22 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; that is why I am commanding you to do this.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 25:40-43, Job 24:10, Job 24:11, Job 31:13-15, Proverbs 14:31, Proverbs 22:16, Ezekiel 22:7, Amos 2:7, Amos 4:1, Amos 8:4, Malachi 3:5, Luke 10:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:10 - thy stranger Exodus 23:9 - thou shalt not Leviticus 19:13 - the wages Leviticus 19:33 - And if Deuteronomy 1:16 - the stranger Psalms 103:6 - executeth Isaiah 16:4 - mine Jeremiah 22:13 - buildeth Zechariah 7:10 - oppress Romans 13:8 - Owe Ephesians 6:9 - ye Colossians 4:1 - give 1 Timothy 5:18 - The labourer James 5:4 - the hire

Cross-References

Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord God , how can I be sure that I will own this land?"
Genesis 24:1
Abraham was now very old, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.
Genesis 24:2
Abraham said to his oldest servant, who was in charge of everything he owned, "Put your hand under my leg.
Genesis 24:7
The Lord , the God of heaven, brought me from the home of my father and the land of my relatives. And he promised me, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.' The Lord will send his angel before you to help you get a wife for my son there.
Genesis 24:8
If the girl won't come back with you, you will be free from this promise. But you must not take my son back there."
Genesis 24:9
So the servant put his hand under his master's leg and made a promise to Abraham about this.
Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left, carrying with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Northwest Mesopotamia to Nahor's city.
Genesis 24:11
In the evening, when the women come out to get water, he made the camels kneel down at the well outside the city.
Genesis 24:13
Here I am, standing by the spring, and the girls from the city are coming out to get water.
Genesis 24:15
Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, came out of the city. (Bethuel was the son of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.) Rebekah was carrying her water jar on her shoulder.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall not oppress an hired servant,.... That is hired by the day, as appears by Deuteronomy 24:15; though the law may include such as are hired by the week, or month, or year; neither of whom are to be oppressed by any means, and chiefly by detaining their wages; so the Jerusalem Targum explains the phrase,

"ye shall not detain by force the hire of the hired servant;''

nor by fraud, as in James 5:4;

[that is] poor and needy; and so cannot bear the lest oppression of this kind, nor to have his wages detained from him any time, and much less wholly to be defrauded of them:

[whether he be] of thy brethren; an Israelite, and so a brother both by nation and religion:

or of thy strangers that [are] in thy land, within thy gates; Jarchi interprets this, both of proselytes of righteousness, and of proselytes of the gate; which latter are plainly described by this clause, and the former must be included; for, if proselytes of the gate are not to be oppressed, much less proselytes of righteousness, who were in all respects as Israelites, the same law was to them both. Jarchi says, the phrase "in thy land" is intended to comprehend the hire of beasts, and of vessels; and these in the Misnah o are said to be comprehended in this precept, as well as the hire of man.

o Bava Metzia, c. 9. sect. 12.


 
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