27 because that cloak is the only covering your neighbour has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

28 ‘Do not blaspheme God[a] or curse the ruler of your people.

29 ‘Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats.[b]

‘You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:28 Or Do not revile the judges
  2. Exodus 22:29 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.