Exodus 22:22-31 ▼

22 You do not afflict any widow or orphan;

23 if you really afflict him, surely if he cries to Me at all, I certainly hear his cry;

24 and My anger has burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

25 If you lend money [to] My poor people [who are] with you, you are not as a usurer to him; you do not lay usury on him;

26 if you take the garment of your neighbor in pledge at all, you return it to him during the going in of the sun:

27 for it is his only covering, it [is] his garment for his skin; wherein does he lie down? And it has come to pass, when he cries to Me, that I have heard, for I [am] gracious.

28 You do not revile God, and you do not curse a prince among your people.

29 You do not delay your fullness and your liquids; you give the firstborn of your sons to Me;

30 so you do to your ox [and] to your sheep; it is with its mother [for] seven days, on the eighth day you give it to Me.

31 And you are holy men to Me, and you do not eat flesh torn in the field, you cast it to a dog.