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Bible Verses About Orphan

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  1. “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

  2. If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

  3. and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  4. He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

  5. At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.

  6. The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

  7. You shall rejoice before the LORD your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are in your midst, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

  8. You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.

  9. You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

  10. but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

  11. When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

  12. When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

  13. When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

  14. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

  15. When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.

  16. You shall say before the LORD your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

  17. ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

  18. Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

  19. You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  20. They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

  21. There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

  22. Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

  23. the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

  24. “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  25. or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it