When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God. 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: At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.-Deuteronomy 24:10-15***Isaac was the only child born to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and his half sister and wife Sarah (Sarai). Before 175-year-old Abraham died in Canaan, he gave the largest portion of his wealth to Isaac and gave smaller portions to his other sons. Isaac was wealthy and continued to grow wealthier. Fraternal twins Esau (Edom) and Jacob (Israel) were the only children born to Isaac and his wife Rebekah, Abraham and Sarah's grandniece. When Isaac was elderly, Jacob obeyed Rebekah and deceived Isaac, cheating Esau of his birthright. Shortly thereafter, Rebekah learned that Esau intended to kill Jacob. Rebekah told Jacob about Esau's plan, and Rebekah spoke words to Isaac that led Isaac to send Jacob to the home of Rebekah's father Bethuel the Syrian in Padan Aram, Haran, in northern Mesopotamia. Jacob journeyed away from Canaan with no wealth and only a walking stick in his hand. Seven years after entering Haran, Jacob married Rebekah's nieces Leah and Rachel, the daughters of Rebekah's brother Laban the Syrian. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah were born to Jacob and Leah. Dan and Naphtali were born to Jacob and Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant. Gad and Asher were born to Jacob and Zilpah, Leah's maidservant. Joseph was born to Jacob and Rachel in Haran. Twenty years after Jacob arrived in Haran, Jacob began journeying home to Canaan with his wives, maidservants, children, and all the servants, animals, and goods he had acquired. In Canaan, near Bethlehem (Ephrath), Benjamin was born to Jacob and Rachel, and Rachel died. When Joseph was at least 17 years old, his brothers sold him to merchants journeying to Egypt, and led Jacob to believe that Joseph was killed by an animal. The merchants sold Joseph to Potiphar, an Egyptian official, and Joseph became the top servant in Potiphar's home. After the false accusation of Potiphar's wife, Joseph was imprisoned among the prisoners of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Less than 3 years after Joseph gave the interpretation of a dream to the imprisoned cupbearer and imprisoned baker who worked for Pharaoh, Joseph gave the interpretation of a dream to Pharaoh. Afterwards, Pharaoh proclaimed 30-year-old Joseph to be second-in-command in Egypt. In the midst of a famine, Jacob sent his sons to buy grain in Egypt. The 2nd time that Jacob sent his sons to Egypt, Joseph identified himself to his brothers and told them to move with their families, including Jacob, from Canaan to Egypt. The Lord God spoke assurances to Jacob, and Jacob was able to live near Joseph for 17 years. Sometime after 147-year-old Jacob died in Egypt and his body was buried in Canaan, and Joseph and his siblings were dead, their descendants the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt. Aaron and his brother Moses were Israelites from the tribe of Levi. When Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83, the Lord God sent them to speak to Pharaoh and to the Israelite elders. After the Lord God brought the 10th and final plague upon Pharaoh and Egypt, Pharaoh told Moses and Aaron to get the Israelites and their animals and go serve the Lord God. Moreover, the Egyptians gave the Israelites a vast amount of valuable goods, fulfilling the words that the Lord God spoke to Abraham over 600 years earlier. Moses and Aaron led the Israelites, and those with them, away from Egypt, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur. In the desert wilderness of Sinai, in the region of Mount Sinai, the Israelites were consecrated according to the commands of the Lord God. At the designated time, the Israelites heard the voice of a trumpet (horn), and the Lord God descended upon the top of Mount Sinai, and the Israelites heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments to them. The Israelites were frightened, and the Lord God began giving Moses judgments, statutes and laws for the Israelites. During the 40th year of their journey to Canaan, the Promised Land, 123-year-old Aaron died and was buried upon Mount Hor. Moses proclaimed his last messages to the Israelites, recounting their history and ancestors, and the promises, commandments, judgments, statutes, and laws that the Lord God gave for the Israelites. Moses spoke about those who would be poor in Canaan, the land of milk, honey, water, crops, iron, and copper. Moses told the Israelites that the poor would never cease from being in Canaan. Moses described the blessings that would overtake the Israelites if the Israelites obeyed the voice of the Lord God and observed to do all of his commandments, and the curses that would overtake them if they did not obey the voice of the Lord God and did not observe to do all of his commandments and statutes. When 120-year-old Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and Moses died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' successor, was from the tribe of Ephraim, descended from Joseph and his wife Asenath, and Joseph and Asenath's 2nd born son Ephraim, whom Jacob proclaimed to be his own son. Joshua led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Over 1,300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born in Bethlehem into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Approximately 30 years after Jesus was born to Joseph and Mary, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by Mary's relative John the Baptist, from the tribe of Levi. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted for 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world. In Galilee, Jesus told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach teach and perform miracles among the Israelites. Meanwhile, the gospel was preached to the poor. Jesus taught of selling possessions and giving and distributing to the poor, and inviting the poor, and Jesus told his disciples and other listeners that they would always have the poor with them.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:26
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And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.-Exodus 23:10-11
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.-Leviticus 19:9-10
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.-Leviticus 23:22
If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.-Leviticus 25:25...And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.-Leviticus 25:35...And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:-Leviticus 25:39