A third tenth I would give to the orphans and widows and to the converts who had attached themselves to Israel. I would bring it and give it to them in the third year, and we would eat it according to the ordinance decreed concerning it in the law of Moses and according to the instructions of Deborah, the mother of my father Tobiel, for my father had died and left me an orphan.

Be a father to orphans, and be like a husband to their mother; you will then be like a son of the Most High, and he will love you more than does your mother.

He will not ignore the supplication of the orphan, or the widow when she pours out her complaint.

They cannot take pity on a widow or do good to an orphan.

The high priest explained that there were some deposits belonging to widows and orphans,

After the sabbath they gave some of the spoils to those who had been tortured and to the widows and orphans, and distributed the rest among themselves and their children.

Judas Defeats Timothy and Bacchides

In encounters with the forces of Timothy and Bacchides they killed more than twenty thousand of them and got possession of some exceedingly high strongholds, and they divided a very large amount of plunder, giving to those who had been tortured and to the orphans and widows, and also to the aged, shares equal to their own.

It makes equal the mind of the king and the orphan, of the slave and the free, of the poor and the rich.

‘Guard the rights of the widow, secure justice for the ward, give to the needy, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,