Deuteronomy 24:17

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger or the orphan, nor take the garment of the widow for a pledge;

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:

In Context

16The fathers shall not die for the children, nor shall children die for the fathers; a man shall die for his own sin.

18But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Mizraim, and that the Lord thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:21Afflict not the widow or the orphan:

Exodus 23:2Thou shalt not follow the many to wickedness, neither shalt thou fail to teach that which in thine eyes is judgment; after the many (majority?) thou shalt fulfil judgment.

Exodus 23:9And thou shalt not distress the sojourner; for you know the mind of a sojourner; for you were dwellers in the land of Mizraim.

Deuteronomy 10:17For the Lord your God is the God of judges, and the Lord of kings, the Great God, mighty and terrible, before whom is no respect of persons, nor doth He accept a reward.

Deuteronomy 24:6No man shall take as a pledge the millstones either lower or upper; for by them is made the subsistence of every living man.

Deuteronomy 27:19Accursed he who perverteth the judgment of the stranger, the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 24:15-22

Justice and Generosity. ( b. c. 1451.) 14 Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: 15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord , and it be sin unto thee. 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man… Read the whole commentary →

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