Add parallel Print Page Options

Be careful that you do not entertain a mean thought, thinking, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and therefore view your needy neighbor with hostility and give nothing; your neighbor[a] might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 15.9 Heb he

28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him,
    and he heard the cry of the afflicted—(A)

Read full chapter

27 Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing,
    but one who turns a blind eye will get many a curse.(A)

Read full chapter

Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.(A)

Read full chapter