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If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy of your neighbor`s hand, you shall not wrong one another.
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Fairness Over Advantage
Commentators explain that the command to not "wrong one another" is better translated as not to "overreach." This principle forbids taking advantage of a person's ignorance or financial necessity in a business transaction. The goal was to ensure fair bargains where the price reflected true value, rather than what one could get away with.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Sell anything – that is, any piece of ground.
Oppress one another – Rather, overreach one another. (Compare [Reference 1 Samuel…
19th Century
Anglican
Ye shall not oppress one another. —Better, you shall not overreach any man his brother. Not only does the Law pr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if you sell ought unto your neighbour Any estate or possession, house or land, at any time before the year of jubilee…
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