DEUTERONOMY 24:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:”
You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow's cloak in pledge — the triad of vulnerable persons (alien, orphan, widow) appears repeatedly in Deuteronomy. Their defenselessness makes them objects of special divine protection; Israel's treatment of them demonstrates covenant loyalty.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!