Exodus 22:21

Tree of Life Version

“You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

Cross References

Job 6:27

Would you cast lots for an orphan, and barter over your friend?

Psalm 146:9

Adonai protects outsiders, upholds the fatherless and the widow, but thwarts the way of the wicked.

Exodus 20:2

“I am Adonai your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Exodus 23:9

“Do not oppress an outsider, for you know the heart of an outsider, since you were outsiders in the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do good, seek justice, relieve the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.”

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says Adonai: ‘Execute justice and righteousness. Rescue the one who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the fatherless or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 7:6

not oppressing the sojourner, orphan and widow nor shedding innocent blood in this place, nor going after other gods to your own ruin—

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother have been treated with contempt; the outsider has been oppressed in your midst; the orphan and the widow have been mistreated in you.

Leviticus 19:13

“You are not to oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant are not to remain with you all night until the morning.

Leviticus 19:33

“If an outsider dwells with you in your land, you shall do him no wrong.

Leviticus 19:34

The outsider dwelling among you should be to you as the native-born among you. You should love him as yourself—for you dwelled as outsiders in the land of Egypt. I am Adonai your God.

Leviticus 25:35

“If your brother has become poor and his hand cannot support himself among you, then you are to uphold him. He may live with you like an outsider or a temporary resident.

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the outsider or the poor. Furthermore, do not let any of you devise evil against one another in your heart.’

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers those who extort a worker’s wage, or oppress the widow or an orphan, those who mislead a stranger. They do not fear Me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Deuteronomy 1:16

“I commanded your judges at that time saying: ‘Hear cases between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or the outsider with him.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He enacts justice for the orphan and widow, and loves the outsider, giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 10:19

Therefore love the outsider, for you were outsiders in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 15:15

You will remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Adonai your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you this thing today.

Deuteronomy 23:16

“You are not to hand over to his master a slave who seeks refuge with you from his master.

Deuteronomy 23:7

You are never to seek their shalom or welfare all your days.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You are not to twist justice for an outsider or orphan, and you are not to take as collateral a widow’s clothing.

Deuteronomy 27:19

‘Cursed is the one who twists justice for the outsider, orphan and widow.’ Then all the people are to say, ‘Amen.’