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You shall not abuse any widow or orphan.
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my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.
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who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them with food and clothing.
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the Levites, because they have no allotment or inheritance with you, as well as the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work that you undertake.
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Rejoice before the Lord your God—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, the Levites resident in your towns, as well as the strangers, the orphans, and the widows who are among you—at the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.
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Rejoice during your festival, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, as well as the Levites, the strangers, the orphans, and the widows resident in your towns.
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You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pledge.
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When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be left for the alien, the orphan, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings.
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When you beat your olive trees, do not strip what is left; it shall be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow.
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When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not glean what is left; it shall be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow.
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When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year (which is the year of the tithe), giving it to the Levites, the aliens, the orphans, and the widows, so that they may eat their fill within your towns,
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then you shall say before the Lord your God: ‘I have removed the sacred portion from the house, and I have given it to the Levites, the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows, in accordance with your entire commandment that you commanded me; I have neither transgressed nor forgotten any of your commandments:
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‘Cursed be anyone who deprives the alien, the orphan, and the widow of justice.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
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You would even cast lots over the orphan, and bargain over your friend.
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You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.
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They drive away the donkey of the orphan; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
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‘There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast, and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.
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because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.
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or have eaten my morsel alone, and the orphan has not eaten from it—
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for from my youth I reared the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
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if I have raised my hand against the orphan, because I saw I had supporters at the gate;
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But you do see! Indeed you note trouble and grief, that you may take it into your hands; the helpless commit themselves to you; you have been the helper of the orphan.
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to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed, so that those from earth may strike terror no more.
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Father of orphans and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
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Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.