Exodus 22:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²² Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Common English Bible

²² Don’t treat any widow or orphan badly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.

Exodus 22:22 Cross References

Job 31:16

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Job 34:28

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.

Psalm 10:14

Thon hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to take it into thy hand: The helpless committeth himself unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 34:7

The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, And delivereth them.

Proverbs 22:23

For the LORD will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them.

Proverbs 23:10

Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Proverbs 23:11

For their redeemer is strong; He shall plead their cause against thee.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do well; seek judgement, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from judgement, and to take away the right of the poor of my people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Jeremiah 7:6

if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

Jeremiah 7:7

then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore.

Ezekiel 22:7

In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee, have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Zechariah 7:10

and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He doth execute the judgement of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Beware that there be not a base thought in thine heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Thou shalt not wrest the judgement of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take the widow's raiment to pledge:

Deuteronomy 24:18

but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed be he that wresteth the judgement of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.