Verse 6

if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or follow other gods, bringing harm upon yourselves,

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  hvis dere ikke undertrykker fremmede, foreldreløse og enker, ikke utgyter uskyldig blod på dette stedet, og ikke følger andre guder til skade for dere selv,

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  hvis dere ikke undertrykker den fremmede, den farløse og enken, eller utøser uskyldig blod på dette stedet, og hvis dere ikke følger andre guder til skade for dere selv,

• Norsk King James

  Hvis dere ikke undertrykker fremmede, foreldreløse og enker, ikke utgyter uskyldig blod på dette stedet, og ikke følger etter andre guder til deres egen skade:

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  hvis dere ikke undertrykker den fremmede, den farløse og enken, ikke utgyter uskyldig blod på dette stedet, og ikke følger andre guder til skade for dere selv,

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  hvis dere ikke undertrykker den fremmede, farløse og enken, ikke utøser uskyldig blod på dette stedet, eller følger andre guder til skade for dere selv,

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Hvis dere ikke undertrykker fremmede, farløse og enker, og ikke utøser uskyldig blod på dette stedet, og heller ikke følger andre guder til skade for dere selv:

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  om dere ikke undertrykker fremmede, foreldreløse og enker, og ikke utgyter uskyldig blod her, og heller ikke følger andre guder som fører til skade,

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Hvis dere ikke undertrykker fremmede, farløse og enker, og ikke utøser uskyldig blod på dette stedet, og heller ikke følger andre guder til skade for dere selv:

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  hvis dere ikke undertrykker fremmede, farløse og enker, ikke utøser uskyldig blod på dette stedet og ikke følger andre guder til skade for dere selv,

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  hvis dere ikke undertrykker innflytteren, den farløse og enken, og ikke utgyter uskyldig blod på dette sted, og ikke følger andre guder til skade for dere selv,

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  (og) I gjøre den Fremmede, Faderløse og Enken ingen Vold, og udøse ikke uskyldigt Blod paa dette Sted, og vandre ikke efter andre Guder, eder til Ulykke,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Hvis dere ikke undertrykker den fremmede, den farløse og enken, og ikke utøser uskyldig blod på dette stedet, og ikke følger andre guder til skade for dere selv,

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  If you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your harm;

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  hvis dere ikke undertrykker den fremmede, den farløse og enken, og ikke utgyter uskyldig blod på dette stedet, og ikke følger andre guder til egen skade,

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  hvis dere ikke undertrykker innflytteren, den farløse og enken, ikke utøser uskyldig blod på dette stedet, og ikke følger andre guder til skade for dere selv,

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  dersom dere ikke undertrykker den fremmede, den farløse og enken, og ikke utøser uskyldig blod på dette stedet, og ikke følger andre guder til deres eget fall:

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Hvis dere ikke er grusomme mot innvandreren, den farløse og enken, og ikke dreper de uskyldige på dette stedet, eller følger andre guder til skade for dere selv,

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  yf ye wil not oppresse the straunger, the fatherles & the wyddowe: yf ye will not shed innocent bloude in this place: yf ye wil not cleue to strauge goddes to youre owne destruction:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And oppresse not the stranger, the fatherlesse and the widow and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walke after other gods to your destruction,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Oppresse not the straunger, the fatherlesse, and the widowe, shed not innocent blood in this place, cleaue not to straunge gods to your owne destruction:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

• World English Bible (2000)

  if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 8:19 : 19 If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods, worshiping and bowing down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
• Jer 13:10 : 10 These evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts, and who follow other gods to serve and worship them, will become like this waistband—useless for anything.
• Jer 2:34 : 34 Even on your skirts is found the blood of the innocent poor. You did not find them breaking in, yet it is because of all these things.
• Exod 22:21-24 : 21 Do not afflict a widow or an orphan. 22 If you do afflict them and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. 23 My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless. 24 If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.
• Deut 6:14-15 : 14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you. 15 For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. His anger will burn against you, and He will destroy you from the face of the earth.
• Deut 11:28 : 28 and the curse if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God but turn aside from the way I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
• Deut 24:17 : 17 Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.
• Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed is anyone who denies justice to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
• 2 Kgs 21:6 : 6 He sacrificed his own son by fire, practiced divination and omen reading, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
• 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 And also because of the innocent blood that he had shed, for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to pardon.
• Job 31:13-22 : 13 If I have denied justice to my male or female servants when they had a grievance against me, 14 what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account? 15 Did not the same One who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same God form us both within our mothers? 16 If I have withheld the desires of the poor or caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17 if I have eaten my morsel alone, without sharing with the fatherless— 18 but from my youth I raised him as a father would, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow— 19 if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or the needy without garments, 20 and their hearts did not bless me for warming them with the fleece from my sheep— 21 If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my support in the gate, 22 then let my shoulder fall from its socket, and let my arm be broken off at the joint.
• Ps 82:3-4 : 3 Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. 4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
• Ps 106:38 : 38 They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
• Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet run to do evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; ruin and destruction are in their paths.
• Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain I have struck your children; they accepted no discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion.
• Jer 19:4 : 4 For they have abandoned Me and made this place foreign. They have burned incense here to other gods—gods that neither they, their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah have known. And they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
• Jer 22:3-4 : 3 This is what the LORD says: Practice justice and righteousness. Rescue the one who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor. Do not mistreat or harm the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place. 4 For if you indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David's throne will come through the gates of this palace, riding in chariots and on horses—they, their officials, and their people.
• Jer 22:15-17 : 15 Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Your father ate and drank, but he practiced justice and righteousness, and it went well with him. 16 He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and it was well with him. Is this not what it means to know me? declares the LORD. 17 But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.
• Jer 26:15 : 15 But you should certainly know that if you put me to death, you are bringing innocent blood upon yourselves, this city, and its inhabitants, for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.
• Jer 26:23 : 23 They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him struck down with the sword and threw his body into the burial place of the common people.
• Lam 4:13 : 13 It happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
• Ezek 18:6 : 6 he does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel; he does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her impurity.
• Ezek 22:3-6 : 3 Then say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You city that sheds blood in her midst to bring her time closer, and makes idols to defile herself, 4 You have become guilty because of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you made. You have brought your days near and have come to the end of your years. Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands. 5 Those near and those far from you will mock you, you who are defiled in name and full of turmoil. 6 See, the princes of Israel, each one by his own might, have been in you to shed blood.
• Zech 7:9-9 : 9 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: 'Administer true justice. Show kindness and compassion to one another. 10 Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.' 11 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder. They stopped their ears so they would not hear. 12 They made their hearts as hard as flint, refusing to hear the law and the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of Hosts.
• Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, and those who swear falsely; against those who defraud workers of their wages, oppress widows and orphans, and deprive foreigners of justice. They do not fear me, says the Lord of Hosts.
• Matt 23:35-37 : 35 so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
• Matt 27:4 : 4 He said, 'I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.' But they replied, 'What is that to us? You take care of it.'
• Matt 27:25 : 25 And all the people answered, 'His blood be on us and on our children!'
• Jas 1:27 : 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
• Jer 7:5 : 5 For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice between a person and their neighbor,