17Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.


In Context

14 Do not take advantage of a hired man who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother Israelite or an alien living in one of your towns.

15 Pay him his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and is counting on it. Otherwise he may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

16 Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.

17 Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.

18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

19 When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 24:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:17Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or of the fatherless; and thou shalt not take in pledge a widow's garment.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:17Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take the widow's raiment to pledge:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless, nor take a widow's raiment for a pledge:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:17You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:17'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: