Leviticus 19:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Thou 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.

Leviticus 19:13 —

Old words in this verse

abide: — stay, remain, live.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
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: …
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;
Proverbs 20:10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-18)

We are taught here, I. To be honest and true in all our dealings, Lev. 19:11. God, who has appointed every man’s property by his providence, forbids by his law the invading of that appointment, either by downright theft, You shall not steal, or by fraudulent dealing, “You shall not cheat, or deal falsely.” Whatever we have in the world, we must see to it that it be honestly come by, for we cannot…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

11-16. Ye shall not steal--A variety of social duties are inculcated in this passage, chiefly in reference to common and little-thought-of vices to which mankind are exceedingly prone; such as committing petty frauds, or not scrupling to violate truth in transactions of business, ridiculing bodily infirmities, or circulating stories to the prejudice of others. In opposition to these bad habits, a…