OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 25:14

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“‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

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Verse 14. Grieve. Hebrew “deceive not.” S. Chrysostom observes, that to engage another to sell us any thing for what we know is beneath its value, is theft. Grot. Jur. ii. 12. The Rabbins also decide that, if an Israelite be defrauded a sixth part, restitution must be made, verse 17. Seld. Jur. vi. 6.

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