Study Desk

Men despise not a thief, when he stealeth, to satisfy his appetite, because he is famished;

Yet, if found, he must pay back sevenfold, All the substance of his house, must he give:

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;

He that robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, companion, is he to one who wasteth.

He that shareth with a thief, hateth himself, an oath, he heareth, yet may not tell.

Two things, have I asked of thee, withhold them not from me, ere yet I die:

Vanity and falsehood, remove far from me, Neither poverty nor riches, give me, Feed me with the food appointed me:

Lest I be full, and deny, and say - Who is Yahweh? or lest I be impoverished and steal, and do violence to the Name of my God.