Deuteronomy 10:18

He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

In Context

17For the LORD your God, He is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awful, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.

19Love ye therefore the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:20(22-19) He that sacrificeth unto the gods, save unto the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.

Exodus 22:22(22-21) Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Numbers 10:32And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good soever the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.'

Psalms 68:5(68-6) A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

Psalms 103:6The LORD executeth righteousness, and acts of justice for all that are oppressed.

Psalms 146:9The LORD preserveth the strangers; He upholdeth the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked He maketh crooked.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:13-22

Exhortation to Obedience. ( b. c. 1451.) 12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the Lord , and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord 's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to… Read the whole commentary →

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