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Bible in Basic English

Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

New American Standard Bible

You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

“You must not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired hand must not remain with you until morning.

International Standard Version

"You are not to oppress your neighbor or rob him. "The wages of a hired laborer are not to remain in your possession until morning.

A Conservative Version

Thou shall not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

American Standard Version

Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Amplified

‘You shall not oppress or exploit your neighbor, nor rob him. You shall not withhold the wages of a hired man overnight until morning.

Darby Translation

Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, neither rob him. The wages of the hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, and thou shalt not rob: the wages of the hireling shall not remain with thee till morning.

King James 2000

You shall not defraud your neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with you all night until the morning.

Lexham Expanded Bible

" 'You shall not exploit your neighbor, and you shall not rob [him]; a hired worker's wage you shall not {withhold} overnight until morning.

Modern King James verseion

You shall not defraud your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you until the morning.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou shalt not beguile thy neighbour with cavillations, neither rob him violently, neither shall the workman's labour abide with thee until the morning.

NET Bible

You must not oppress your neighbor or commit robbery against him. You must not withhold the wages of the hired laborer overnight until morning.

New Heart English Bible

"'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour nor rob him , - The wages of him that is hired shall not tarry with thee, until the morning.

Webster

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

World English Bible

"'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. "'The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Youngs Literal Translation

'Thou dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till morning.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
him the wages
פּעלּה 
P@`ullah 
Usage: 14

of him that is hired
שׂכיר 
Sakiyr 
Usage: 17

shall not abide
לין לוּן 
Luwn 
Usage: 84

References

Context Readings

Dealing Honestly

12 And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord. 13 Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning. 14 Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.

Cross References

James 5:4

See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

Deuteronomy 24:14-15

Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

Exodus 22:8-9

If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods.

Exodus 22:24-27

And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

Job 31:39

If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

Proverbs 20:10

Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

Jeremiah 22:3

This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

Jeremiah 22:13

A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

Mark 10:19

You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.

Luke 3:13

And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.

Exodus 22:13

But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to make this clear, he will not have to make payment for what was damaged.

Exodus 22:15

If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment.

Exodus 22:21

Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 6:3

Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things,

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