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Orphans in the Bible: Deuteronomy 24:17-22


Throughout the Bible, God's people are exhorted to care for the outcasts and rejected, and orphans certainly fit that description in the Biblical world. Here, the Israelites are commanded to make sure that justice is available even to the fatherless and foreigners.
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Topics: Justice, Widow, Orphans
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Deuteronomy 24:17-22 (KJV)

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

 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot…

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Today's passage is from the New International Version of the Bible
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