New American Standard Bible 1995

Exodus 22:22-27

22 1You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. 23If you afflict him at all, and 2if he does cry out to Me, 3I will surely hear his cry; 24and My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, 4and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

25“5If you lend money to My people, to the poor 6among you, you are not to 7act as a creditor to him; you shall not 8charge him 9interest. 26If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak 10as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun sets, 27for that is his only covering; it is his cloak for his 11body. What else shall he sleep in? And it shall come about that 12when he cries out to Me, I will hear him, for 13I am gracious.

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Notes

1. Exodus 22:22 Deut 24:17, 18; Prov 23:10, 11; Jer 7:6, 7 ↩
2. Exodus 22:23 Deut 15:9; Job 35:9; Luke 18:7 ↩
3. Exodus 22:23 Deut 10:18; Job 34:28; Ps 10:14, 17, 18; 18:6; 68:5; James 5:4 ↩
4. Exodus 22:24 Ps 109:2, 9 ↩
5. Exodus 22:25 Lev 25:35-37; Deut 15:7-11 ↩
6. Exodus 22:25 Lit with ↩
7. Exodus 22:25 Lit be ↩
8. Exodus 22:25 Lit lay upon ↩
9. Exodus 22:25 Deut 23:19, 20; Neh 5:7; Ps 15:5; Ezek 18:8 ↩
10. Exodus 22:26 Deut 24:6, 10-13; Job 24:3; Prov 20:16; Amos 2:8 ↩
11. Exodus 22:27 Lit skin ↩
12. Exodus 22:27 Ex 22:23 ↩
13. Exodus 22:27 Ex 34:6 ↩

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