Leviticus 19:13
New International Version
“’Do not defraud or rob your neighbor. “’Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight.

New Living Translation
“Do not defraud or rob your neighbor. “Do not make your hired workers wait until the next day to receive their pay.

English Standard Version
“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Berean Standard Bible
You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
‘You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not remain with you all night until morning.

New American Standard Bible
‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired worker are not to remain with you all night until morning.

NASB 1995
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.

NASB 1977
‘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.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘You shall not oppress your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of a hired man shall not remain with you overnight until morning.

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

Christian Standard Bible
“Do not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired worker must not remain with you until morning.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You must not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired hand must not remain with you until 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You shall not oppress your fellow man and you shall not take him by force ; the pay of a hired man will not remain with you until the morning.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt not injure thy neighbour, neither do thou rob him, neither shall the wages of thy hireling remain with thee until the morning.

Contemporary English Version
Do not steal anything or cheat anyone, and don't fail to pay your workers at the end of each day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppress him by violence. The wages of him that hath been hired by thee shall not abide with thee until the morning.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Never oppress or rob your neighbor. Never keep the pay you owe a hired worker overnight.

Good News Translation
"Do not rob or take advantage of anyone. Do not hold back the wages of someone you have hired, not even for one night.

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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, nor rob him; the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Literal Standard Version
You do not oppress your neighbor, nor take plunder; the wages of the hired worker do not remain with you until morning.

Majority Standard Bible
You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

New American Bible
You shall not exploit your neighbor. You shall not commit robbery. You shall not withhold overnight the wages of your laborer.

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 Revised Standard Version
You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

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

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Context
Love Your Neighbor
12You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD. 13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand. 14You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.…

Cross References
Matthew 20:8
When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.'

1 Timothy 5:18
For the Scripture says, "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain," and, "The worker is worthy of his wages."

James 5:4
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Exodus 20:15
You shall not steal.

Exodus 22:7
If a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor's house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.

Exodus 22:21
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 24:14
Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.


Treasury of Scripture

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.

shall not

Proverbs 20:10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

Proverbs 22:22
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Jeremiah 22:3
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

the wages

Deuteronomy 24:14,15
Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: …

Job 31:39
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

Jeremiah 22:13
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

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Leviticus 19
1. A repetition of various laws














(13) Thou shalt not defraud.--Here oppression by fraud and oppression by violence are forbidden. It is probably in allusion to this passage that John the Baptist warned the soldiers who came to him: "And he said to them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages" (Luke 3:14).

The wages of him that is hired.--From the declaration in the next clause, which forbids the retention of the wages over night, it is evident that the day labourer is here spoken of. As he is dependent upon his wages for the support of himself and his family, the Law protects him by enjoining that the earnings of the hireling should be promptly paid. This benign care for the labourer, and the denunciation against any attempt to defraud him, are again and again repeated in the Scriptures (Deuteronomy 24:14-15; Jeremiah 32:13; Malachi 3:5; James 5:4). Hence the humane interpretation which obtained of this law during the second Temple: "He who treats a hireling with harshness sins as grievously as if he hath taken away life, and transgresses five precepts." . . .

Verse 13. - Cheating and stealing are again forbidden, and, together with these, other forms of oppression although legal. The command to pay labourers their hire promptly - which covers also the case of paying tradesmen promptly - is repeated in Deuteronomy 24:14 (cf. James 5:4).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You must not
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

defraud
תַעֲשֹׁ֥ק (ṯa·‘ă·šōq)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6231: To press upon, oppress, defraud, violate, overflow

your neighbor
רֵֽעֲךָ֖ (rê·‘ă·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7453: Friend, companion, fellow

or
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

rob him.
תִגְזֹ֑ל (ṯiḡ·zōl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1497: To pluck off, to flay, strip, rob

You
אִתְּךָ֖ (’it·tə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

must not
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

withhold
תָלִ֞ין (ṯā·lîn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3885: To stop, to stay permanently, to be obstinate

until
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

morning
בֹּֽקֶר׃ (bō·qer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1242: Dawn, morning

the wages
פְּעֻלַּ֥ת (pə·‘ul·laṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6468: A work, recompense

due a hired hand.
שָׂכִ֛יר (śā·ḵîr)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7916: A man at wages


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