Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Holman Bible
“You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.
International Standard Version
"You are not to mistreat any widow or orphan.
American Standard Version
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Amplified
You shall not harm or oppress any widow or fatherless child.
Bible in Basic English
Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.
Darby Translation
Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
Julia Smith Translation
Every widow and orphan ye shall not afflict.
King James 2000
You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Lexham Expanded Bible
" 'You will not afflict any widow or orphan.
Modern King James verseion
You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:
NET Bible
"You must not afflict any widow or orphan.
New Heart English Bible
"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
The Emphasized Bible
Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate:
Webster
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
World English Bible
"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
Youngs Literal Translation
'Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;
Themes
Fatherless » Admonitions in regard to
Injustice » Specially to be avoided towards » The stranger and fatherless
Orphans » Admonitions in regard to
Social duties » Compassion » Duty to widow and fatherless
Widow and fatherless » Kindness to encouraged
Interlinear
`anah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 22:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Regulations Regarding Foreigners And The Poor
21 And thou shall not wrong a sojourner, neither shall thou oppress him, for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 23 If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry,
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:17
Thou shall not distort the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge,
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do good. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah 1:23
Thy rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
Isaiah 10:2
to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Ezekiel 22:7
In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Zechariah 7:10
And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor man. And let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner in giving him food and raiment.
Psalm 94:6-7
They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.