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Exodus 22:24

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I will become angry and have you killed in combat. Then your wives and children will become widows and orphans.

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After thinking it over, I confronted the nobles and the leaders. I told them, “You are charging interest on loans made to your own relatives.” I arranged for a large meeting to deal with them.

“A disaster from God terrifies me. In the presence of his majesty I can do nothing.

Wicked and deceitful people have opened their mouths against me. They speak against me with lying tongues.

“Let his children become fatherless and his wife a widow.

The one who does not collect interest on a loan or take a bribe against an innocent person. Whoever does these things will never be shaken.

Pour your rage on them. Let your burning anger catch up with them.

You alone must be feared! Who can stand in your presence when you become angry?

Who fully understands the power of your anger? A person fears you more when he better understands your fury.

Their widows will be more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will send a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring anguish and terror to them.

Now, hand their children over to famine. Pour out their ⌞blood⌟ by using your sword. Then their wives will become childless widows. Their husbands will be put to death. Their young men will be struck down in battle.

We are orphans without a father. Our mothers are like widows.

“If an Israelite becomes poor and cannot support himself, help him. He must live with you as a stranger without a permanent home.

Don’t collect interest or make any profit from him. Fear your God by respecting other Israelites’ lives.

Who can stand in the presence of his rage? Who can oppose his burning anger? He pours out his rage like fire and smashes the rocky cliffs.

Give, and you will receive. A large quantity, pressed together, shaken down, and running over will be put into your pocket. The standards you use for others will be applied to you.”

You may charge a foreigner interest, but not an Israelite. Then the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do once you’ve entered the land and taken possession of it.

If you make a vow to the Lord your God, don’t avoid keeping it. The Lord your God expects you to keep it. You would be guilty of a sin if you didn’t.

Falling into the hands of the living God is a terrifying thing.




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