Deuteronomy 24:14 BSB

Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
תַעֲשֹׁ֥ק	ta.'a.Shok	you must oppress	H6231 →
שָׂכִ֖יר	sa.Khir	a hired laborer	H7916 →
עָנִ֣י	'a.Ni	poor	H6041 →
וְאֶבְי֑וֹן	ve.'ev.Yon	and needy	H34 →
מֵאַחֶ֕יךָ	me.'a.Chei.kha	one of countrymen your	H251 →
א֧וֹ	'o	or	H176 →
מִגֵּרְךָ֛	mi.ge.re.Kha	one of sojourner[s] your	H1616 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
בְּאַרְצְךָ֖	be.'ar.tze.Kha	[is] in land your	H776 →
בִּשְׁעָרֶֽיךָ׃	bish.'a.Rei.kha	in gates your	H8179 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Malachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud…
leads to
- James 5:8–9
  You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
- Hebrews 13:4
  Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Deuteronomy 5:11
  You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 27:19
  ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Through
Proverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
leads to
- Proverbs 22:2
  The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
- Proverbs 17:5
  He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
Through
Proverbs 22:16
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
leads to
- Proverbs 22:22–23
  Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.Proverbs 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.Proverbs 22:16Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.Job 24:10–11Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.Amos 4:1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”Luke 10:7Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.Deuteronomy 15:12–18If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.Job 31:13–15If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,Amos 2:7They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.Leviticus 25:35–43Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.Leviticus 19:33When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.Deuteronomy 1:16At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.Isaiah 16:4Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,

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