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New American Standard Bible
if you do not oppress the alien, the
King James Version
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Holman Bible
if you no longer oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow
International Standard Version
and if you don't oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, and don't shed an innocent person's blood in this place, and if you don't follow other gods to your own harm,
A Conservative Version
if ye do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own hurt,
American Standard Version
if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
Amplified
if you do not oppress the transient and the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood [by oppression and by unjust judicial murders] in Jerusalem, nor follow after other gods to your own ruin,
Bible in Basic English
If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
Darby Translation
if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;
Julia Smith Translation
Ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan and the widow, and innocent blood ye shall not pour out in this place, and after other gods ye shall not go, for evil to you;
King James 2000
If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Lexham Expanded Bible
you do not oppress [the] alien, [the] orphan, and [the] widow, you do not shed innocent blood in this place, and you do not go after other gods {to your harm},
Modern King James verseion
if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If ye will not oppress the stranger, the fatherless and the widow; if ye will not shed innocent blood in this place; if ye will not cleave to strange gods to your own destruction;
NET Bible
Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.
New Heart English Bible
if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
The Emphasized Bible
The sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, shall not oppress, And innocent blood, shall not shed in this place, - And after other gods, shall not walk to your own hurt,
Webster
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
World English Bible
if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
Youngs Literal Translation
Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 7:6
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Context Readings
Jeremiah's Proclamation At The Gate Of The House Of Yahweh
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For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly do right between a man and his neighbour,
6 if you do not oppress the alien, the
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:19
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I protest against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Jeremiah 2:34
Even in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; thou didst not find them in any trespass, but by all these things.
Jeremiah 13:10
This evil people that refuses to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart and went after other gods to serve them and to worship them shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
Exodus 22:21-24
Thou shalt neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 6:14-15
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you
Deuteronomy 11:28
and the curse if ye will not hear the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Deuteronomy 24:17
Thou shalt not twist the rights of the stranger nor of the fatherless nor take a widow's clothing for a pledge,
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is he that twists the rights of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
2 Kings 21:6
And he made his son pass through the fire and observed times and used enchantments and dealt with spiritists and diviners and multiplied much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 24:4
and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.
Job 31:13-22
If I had despised the right of my manslave or of my maidslave, when they contended with me;
Psalm 82:3-4
Do right concerning the poor and fatherless; do justice to the poor and destitute.
Psalm 106:38
and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are their paths.
Jeremiah 2:30
I have smitten your children in vain; they have received no correction; your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 7:5
For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly do right between a man and his neighbour,
Jeremiah 19:4
Because they have forsaken me and have estranged this place; and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
Jeremiah 22:3-4
Thus hath the LORD said: Execute judgment and righteousness and deliver the oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor and do not deceive, neither steal from the stranger nor from the fatherless nor from the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 22:15-17
Shalt thou reign, because thou dost enclose thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and righteousness, and then it was well with him?
Jeremiah 26:15
But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and upon its inhabitants; for of a truth the LORD has sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
Jeremiah 26:23
and they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
Lamentations 4:13
Mem For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
Ezekiel 18:6
that he does not eat upon the mountains, neither lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither defile his neighbour's wife, neither come near to the menstruous woman,
Ezekiel 22:3-6
Then thou shalt say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said, City that sheds blood in the midst of thyself, that thy time may come, and that has made idols against thyself to defile thyself!
Zechariah 7:9-12
Thus hath the LORD of the hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion each one to his brother;
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near unto you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.
Matthew 23:35-37
that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye murdered between the temple and the altar.
Matthew 27:4
saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? Thou shalt see to it.
Matthew 27:25
Then all the people answered and said, His blood be on us and on our children.
James 1:27
The pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep thyself unspotted from this world.