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=== Cross-references ===
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===== For Better Understanding =====

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===== Related Topics =====

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== Summary ==

*Regulations about various relationships and circumstances in life. ''All'' must be done in righteousness, and in a way that expresses love/care for others.

==Details and/or Comments==

*Those who borrow from you: Don't abuse or take advantage of him.

*Those who work for you: Treat properly, pay promptly, etc.

*Those who sin: Each must pay for his own sins; maintain justice for all.

*Those who are poor: Leave some of your crops/produce for him to harvest.

==Scripture==

Deuteronomy 24:6, 10-22 - Proper treatment of other people

'''Instructions about taking pledges from those who borrow.'''
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| Deu 24:6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a man's life to pledge.
| Do not take away his ability to provide food for his family.

*[[Interest, Usury, Profiting from the Poor]]
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| Deu 24:10 When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

Deu 24:11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.

Deu 24:12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

Deu 24:13 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
| Do not lord over him, take what you want, take away his ability to live, etc. - Not doing such things is an act of righteousness.

*[[Interest, Usury, Profiting from the Poor]]
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'''Proper treatment for those who work for you.'''
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| Deu 24:14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

Deu 24:15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
| Proper treatment for EMPLOYEES.

Do not oppress him, regardless of whether he is native-born or a foreigner; pay him at the proper time.

*[[Employer-Employee Relationships]]
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'''Each person is responsible for his own sin; justice for all.'''
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| Deu 24:16 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.
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When sins are deserving of death, each must pay for ''his own'' sins.

*[[Capital Punishment]]
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| Deu 24:17 You shall not wrest the justice due to the foreigner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

Deu 24:18 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
|Maintain justice for all, including the weak, the outcast, etc. ''Follow God's example.''

*[[Injustice]]
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'''Sharing some of your produce/crops with the poor'''
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| Deu 24:19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deu 24:20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Deu 24:21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Deu 24:22 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
| You must leave some of your crops/produce for others who are needy. Blessing these people is a prerequisite for receiving blessings from God!

(However, they must be willing to work for it – by picking the produce/fruit/grain, etc., themselves.)

*[[Generosity]]

*[[Blessings (and Their Nature)]]
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