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Deuteronomy 24:17

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17–18Make sure foreigners and orphans get their just rights. Don’t take the cloak of a widow as security for a loan.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Do not deny justice to a resident alien or fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s garment as security.

NLTNew Living Translation

“True justice must be given to foreigners living among you and to orphans, and you must never accept a widow’s garment as security for her debt.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You shall not subvert the rights of an alien or an orphan, and you shall not take as pledge the garment of a widow.

KJV 1900King James Version

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