^7:5You must change¹⁰ the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.¹¹^7:6Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands.¹² Stop killing innocent people¹³ in this land. Stop paying allegiance to¹⁴ other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.¹⁵^7:7If you stop doing these things,¹⁶ I will allow you to continue to live in this land¹⁷ which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession.¹⁸

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Footnotes

10 The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.
11 Heb “you must do justice between a person and his fellow/neighbor.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.
12 Heb “Stop oppressing foreigner, orphan, and widow.”
13 Heb “Stop shedding innocent blood.”
14 Heb “going/following after.” See the translator’s note at for an explanation of the idiom involved here.
15 Heb “going after other gods to your ruin.”
16 The translation uses imperatives in vv. 5–6 followed by the phrase, “If you do all this,” to avoid the long and complex sentence structure of the Hebrew sentence which has a series of conditional clauses in vv. 5–6 followed by a main clause in v. 7.
17 Heb “live in this place, in this land.”
18 Heb “gave to your fathers [with reference to] from ancient times even unto forever.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Instead, if you really correct your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another, if you no longer oppress the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves, I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestors long ago and forever.

NLTNew Living Translation

But I will be merciful only if you stop your evil thoughts and deeds and start treating each other with justice; only if you stop exploiting foreigners, orphans, and widows; only if you stop your murdering; and only if you stop harming yourselves by worshiping idols. Then I will let you stay in this land that I gave to your ancestors to keep forever.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do justice between a man and his neighbor, you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, you do not shed innocent blood in this place, and you do not go after other gods to your harm, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your ancestors forever and ever.

KJV 1900King James Version

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

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