Deuteronomy 24:17
World English Bible
You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
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Deuteronomy 24:17 in other translations
Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge;
Deuteronomy 24:17 in context
- 15In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
- 16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
- 17You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
- 18but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
- 19When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.