^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

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Footnotes

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.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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,

NLTNew Living Translation

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.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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,

KJV 1900King James Version

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:

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