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Ezekiel 18:7

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18:7 does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, 1  does not commit robbery, 2  but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

Ezekiel 33:15

Context
33:15 He 3  returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, 4  committing no iniquity. He will certainly live – he will not die.

1 tn Heb “restores to the debtor his pledge.” The root occurs in Exod 22:25 in reference to restoring a man’s garment as a pledge before nightfall.

2 tn The Hebrew term refers to seizure of property, usually by the rich (Isa 3:14; 10:2; Mic 2:2 [see Lev 5:21, 22]).

3 tn Heb “the wicked one.”

4 tn Heb “and in the statutes of life he walks.”



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