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#Deuteronomy 24:10-15
Caring for the poor
This isn’t some generic “be nice to the poor” sort of thing you see elsewhere in D. This is specific law: financial and labor policy insuring that the poor don’t suffer just because they’re poor. It’s about dignity - it’s good stuff.
Caring for the poor
This isn’t some generic “be nice to the poor” sort of thing you see elsewhere in D. This is specific law: financial and labor policy insuring that the poor don’t suffer just because they’re poor. It’s about dignity - it’s good stuff.
No going into someone’s house to collect their pledge. You give them the dignity of bringing it out to you. They may be in debt to you, but that doesn’t give you the right to bust into their home. Because they’re still people even if they’re poor.
Famously, you can’t take the cloak of a poor person as their pledge overnight. Even though they owe it to you, and normally you would keep it, their health - and dignity - override the usual practices.
And of course no withholding wages past sunset - for poor people, the daily wage is what they live on.
Basically what all these laws are about is: yes, you are owed money, and this person is in your debt, but, like, you don’t have to be a dick about it.
People > money.
Basically what all these laws are about is: yes, you are owed money, and this person is in your debt, but, like, you don’t have to be a dick about it.
People > money.
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