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


In Context

14 'Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates;

15 in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he is poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee — sin.

16 Fathers are not put to death for sons, and sons are not put to death for fathers — each for his own sin, they are put to death.

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

18 and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee from thence; therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing.

19 'When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in a field, thou dost not turn back to take it; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is; so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

24:17Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a 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 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: