In you they have (A)made light of father and mother; in your midst they have (B)oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the [a]fatherless and the widow.

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  1. Ezekiel 22:7 Lit. orphan

16 (A)‘Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

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21 (A)“You shall neither mistreat a [a]stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

22 (B)“You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

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  1. Exodus 22:21 sojourner

And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
(A)Against perjurers,
Against those who (B)exploit wage earners and (C)widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

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10 (A)Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
(B)Let none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’

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if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, (A)or walk after other gods to your hurt,

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‘For (A)everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. (B)His blood shall be upon him.

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10 For Moses said, (A)‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, (B)‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’

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For God commanded, saying, (A)‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, (B)‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, (C)“Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— then he need not honor his father [a]or mother.’ Thus you have made the [b]commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

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  1. Matthew 15:6 NU omits or mother
  2. Matthew 15:6 NU word

29 The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully (A)oppress the stranger.

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12 If he has oppressed the poor and needy,
Robbed by violence,
Not restored the pledge,
Lifted his eyes to the idols,
Or (A)committed abomination;

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17 (A)The eye that mocks his father,
And scorns obedience to his mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat it.

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11 There is a generation that curses its (A)father,
And does not bless its mother.

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22 Do not rob the (A)poor because he is poor,
Nor oppress the afflicted at the gate;
23 (B)For the Lord will plead their cause,
And plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

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20 (A)Whoever curses his father or his mother,
(B)His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

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19 (A)‘Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

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16 (A)‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, (B)that your days may be long, and that it may be well with (C)you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

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17 “And (A)he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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12 (A)“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be (B)long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

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