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Jeremiah 7:6

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

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ASV

if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

KJV

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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Original language & word study

18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
גֵּ֣רger[the] sojournerH1616 →
יָת֤וֹםya.Tom[the] fatherlessH3490 →
וְאַלְמָנָה֙ve.'al.ma.Nahand [the] widowH490 →
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808 →
תַֽעֲשֹׁ֔קוּta.'a.Sho.kuyou must oppressH6231 →
וְדָ֣םve.Damand bloodH1818 →
נָקִ֔יna.KiinnocentH5355 →
אַֽל־'al-may notH408 →
תִּשְׁפְּכ֖וּtish.pe.Khuyou shedH8210 →
בַּמָּק֣וֹםba.ma.Komin the placeH4725 →
הַזֶּ֑הha.Zeh<the> thisH2088 →
וְאַחֲרֵ֨יve.'a.cha.Reiand afterH310 →
אֱלֹהִ֧ים'E.lo.HimgodsH430 →
אֲחֵרִ֛ים'a.che.RimotherH312 →
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808 →
תֵלְכ֖וּte.le.Khuyou must walkH1980 →
לְרַ֥עle.Ra'for harmH7451 →
לָכֶֽם׃la.Khemof you

The walk

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Exodus 22:21–24You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.Deuteronomy 8:19If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.Zechariah 7:9–12“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.Jeremiah 13:10These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.Deuteronomy 11:28but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.Jeremiah 7:9Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,Jeremiah 2:34Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these thingsDeuteronomy 6:14–15Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.Leviticus 19:33When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.Jeremiah 19:4because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.Psalms 82:3–4Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.Jeremiah 22:3–4This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.James 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.Deuteronomy 27:19‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.Matthew 23:35–37And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

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