Laws of Social Responsibility
Exodus 22:22
In 11 translations
- BSB
- You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
- KJV
- ¶ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
- WEB
- “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
- ASV
- Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
- LSV
- You do not afflict any widow or orphan;
- YLT
- 'Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;
- DBY
- Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
- DRC
- You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.
- GNV
- Ye shall not trouble any widowe, nor fatherlesse childe.
- JPS22:21
- Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
- LXXE22:21
- Ye shall hurt no widow or orphan.
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Original-language editions
- WLC22:21
- כָּל־אַלְמָנָ֥ה וְיָת֖וֹם לֹ֥א תְעַנּֽוּן׃KJV:Exod.22.22
- LXX-Br22:21
- Πᾶσαν χήραν καὶ ὀρφανὸν οὐ κακώσετε.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
FatherlessInjusticeWidowsBoreHammurabi, Code ofCovenant, Book of theBlindness, JudicialOrdinanceTheocracy, the, or Immediate Government by GodOrphan
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
- Deuteronomy 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
- Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
- Deuteronomy 27:19‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- Isaiah 10:2to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
- Zechariah 7:10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
- Deuteronomy 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- James 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- Psalms 94:6–7They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless. They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 22:21 in some Bibles
- 22:22 in most Bibles