Deuteronomy 24:10-22
1. Don't take advantage of a hired man who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or Israelite or an alien. Pay him his wages each day before sunset
2. Don't deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take cloak of the widow as a pledge.
3. When you are harvesting in your field or beat the olives from your trees or harvesting the grapes in your vineyard, do not go back to get a sheaf you overlooked, leave what remains for the aliens,the father less and the widow.
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why the Lord commanded you to do this.
Fathers should not be put to dead for their children, not children put to dead for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
Why?
The Lord asked Israelite have mercy to labor man who is poor and needy. It shows the abundant of the God's gifts and grace. Leave some good to the needy man and respect their reputation. Even the poor and needy man needs reputation.
When a man is angry will kill his whole family for one's sin, it is cruel to many innocent peoples. This were happened in past a few centuries in the world. So the Lord asks each is to die for his own sin. This is correspond to the justice and mercy of the Lord.
People have to bear his own obligation of his behavior.
How?
Obey the commandments of the Lord is a real Christian. Anyone who does not carry his cross and follow Jesus cannot be his disciple. (Luke 14:27)
Respect the reputation of the poor and needy man when we are helping them.
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