1. The Scandalous Messages of James
James is not the only person in the Bible to write that the poor are oppressed, Tamez gives examples from Leviticus 19:13, "Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning." Deuteronomy 24:14-15 also states "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 sown upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it. ...
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