Deuteronomy 24:15

A poor laborer must be paid his wages the same day, before sunset, because he depends on them to live. Delayed payment to the needy is a sin God hears and judges.

Cross-references · 17

• Lev 19:13“‘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.
• Jas 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
• Prov 3:27–28Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
• Jer 22:13“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
• Deut 15:9Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
• Exod 22:23–24If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
• Job 35:9“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
• Job 34:28so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
• Ps 25:1By David. To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.
• Isa 5:7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
• Ps 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
• Mark 10:19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”
• Prov 23:10–11Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
• Job 31:38If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
• Ps 86:4Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
• Matt 20:8When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’
• Prov 22:22–23Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

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