Exodus 22:24
And my fury will be enraged, and I will strike you down with the sword. And your wives will become widows, and your sons will become orphans.
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In Context
23If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35If your brother has become impoverished, or infirm of hand, and you take him in, like a newcomer or a sojourner, and he lives with you,
Deuteronomy 23:20but only to a foreigner. For you shall lend to your brother whatever he needs without interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your works in the land, which you shall enter so as to possess it.
Nehemiah 5:7And my heart considered within me. And I rebuked the nobles and the magistrates, and I said to them, “Have you each been exacting usury from your brothers?” And I gathered together a great assembly against them.
Job 31:23For I have always feared God, like waves flowing over me, whose weight I was unable to bear.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:17-25
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22… Read the whole commentary →