Verse 3

They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as security.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 24:6 : 6 Do not take a pair of millstones, not even the upper one, as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person's livelihood as a pledge.
  • Deut 24:10-13 : 10 When you lend your neighbor anything, do not enter their house to take what is offered as a pledge. 11 You must wait outside while the person to whom you are lending brings the pledge out to you. 12 If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight. 13 Return their pledge by sunset so that they may sleep in their own garment and bless you; this will be considered a righteous act before the LORD your God.
  • Deut 24:17-21 : 17 Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge. 18 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this. 19 When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat your olive trees, do not go over the branches again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. 21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
  • 1 Sam 12:3 : 3 Here I am. Testify against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded or oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes to wrongdoing? If so, I will restore it to you.
  • Job 22:6-9 : 6 For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. 8 But the powerful man owns the land, and the honored man dwells in it. 9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
  • Job 31:16-17 : 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—