Deuteronomy 10:18

Who executeth justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

Leeser Tanakh

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 is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who hath no regard to persons, and taketh no bribe;

19Love ye then the stranger; for you have been strangers in the land of Egypt.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:20(22:19) He that sacrificeth unto any god, 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 the same goodness which the Lord may do unto us, 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 justice for all that are oppressed.

Psalms 146:9The Lord guardeth the strangers; the fatherless and widow he helpeth up; 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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