Deuteronomy 24:14-22

¹⁴Don''t abuse a laborer who is destitute and needy, whether he is a fellow Israelite living in your land and in your city.b

¹⁵Pay him at the end of each workday; he''s living from hand to mouth and needs it now. If you hold back his pay, he''ll protest to GOD and you''ll have sin on your books.c

¹⁶Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their parents. Each person shall be put to death for his own sin.d

¹⁷Make sure foreigners and orphans get their just rights. Don''t take the cloak of a widow as security for a loan.

¹⁸Don''t ever forget that you were once slaves in Egypt and GOD, your God, got you out of there. I command you: Do what I''m telling you.

¹⁹When you harvest your grain and forget a sheaf back in the field, don''t go back and get it; leave it for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow so that GOD, your God, will bless you in all your work.e

²⁰When you shake the olives off your trees, don''t go back over the branches and strip them bare--what''s left is for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.

²¹And when you cut the grapes in your vineyard, don''t take every last grape--leave a few for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.

²²Don''t ever forget that you were a slave in Egypt. I command you: Do what I''m telling you.