Exodus 22:24
And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
23If you hurt them they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee,
Deuteronomy 23:20But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that which he wanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.
Nehemiah 5:7And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and magistrates, and said to them: Do you every one ex- act usury of your brethren ? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,
Job 31:23For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.
Psalms 69:24Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.
Psalms 78:63Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.
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 →