Holman Christian Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 24:10-18 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

10. “When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security.

11. You must stand outside while the man you are making the loan to brings the security out to you.

12. If he is a poor man, you must not sleep in the garment he has given as security.

13. Be sure to return it to him at sunset. Then he will sleep in it and bless you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you before the Lord your God.

14. “Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town in your land.

15. You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty.

16. “Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.

17. Do not deny justice to a foreigner or fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s garment as security.

18. Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.