Thematic Bible: Duty to widow and fatherless
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You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
Verse Concepts
Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Verse Concepts
and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Verse Concepts
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
Verse Concepts
When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
Verse Concepts
Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
Verse Concepts
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."
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