Deuteronomy 24:17

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

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WEBBE

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

BSB

Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

KJV

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:

ASV

Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge;

BBE

Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 14–22

It is not hard to prove that purity, piety, justice, mercy, fair conduct, kindness to the poor and destitute, consideration for them, and generosity of spirit, are pleasing to God, and becoming in his redeemed people. The difficulty is to attend to them in our daily walk and conversation.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.