Leviticus 19:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Shalt not

1 Thessalonians 4:6

The wages

James 5:4

General references

Bible References

Shalt not

A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.

Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed -- without judgment.

the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.'

and he said unto them, 'Exact no more than that directed you.'

that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger is the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

The wages

'Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates;

If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,

Woe to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

General references

'Thou dost not steal.

'And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

Say not thou to thy friend, 'Go, and return, and to-morrow I give,' And substance with thee.

but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!