Parallel Verses
Amplified
You shall not harm or oppress any widow or fatherless child.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Holman Bible
“You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.
International Standard Version
"You are not to mistreat any widow or orphan.
A Conservative Version
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
American Standard Version
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Bible in Basic English
Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.
Darby Translation
Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
Julia Smith Translation
Every widow and orphan ye shall not afflict.
King James 2000
You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Lexham Expanded Bible
" 'You will not afflict any widow or orphan.
Modern King James verseion
You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:
NET Bible
"You must not afflict any widow or orphan.
New Heart English Bible
"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
The Emphasized Bible
Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate:
Webster
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
World English Bible
"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
Youngs Literal Translation
'Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;
Themes
Fatherless » Admonitions in regard to
Injustice » Specially to be avoided towards » The stranger and fatherless
Orphans » Admonitions in regard to
Social duties » Compassion » Duty to widow and fatherless
Widow and fatherless » Kindness to encouraged
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 22:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Regulations Regarding Foreigners And The Poor
21 “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 You shall not harm or oppress any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you harm or oppress them in any way, and they cry at all to Me [for help], I will most certainly hear their cry;
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:17
“You shall not pervert the justice due a stranger or an orphan, nor seize (impound) a widow’s garment as security [for a loan].
Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who distorts (perverts) the justice due to a stranger, an orphan, and a widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do good.
Seek justice,
Rebuke the ruthless,
Defend the fatherless,
Plead for the [rights of the] widow [in court].
Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels
And companions of thieves;
Everyone loves bribes
And chases after gifts.
They do not defend the fatherless,
Nor does the widow’s cause come before them [instead they delay or turn a deaf ear].
Isaiah 10:2
So as to deprive the needy of justice
And rob the poor of My people of rightful claims,
So that widows may be their spoil
And that they may plunder the fatherless.
Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have treated father and mother lightly. They have oppressed the stranger among you; and in your presence they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Zechariah 7:10
and do not oppress or exploit the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise or even imagine evil in your hearts against one another.’
James 1:27
Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He
Psalm 94:6-7
And murder the fatherless.