Verse 6

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;

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,

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  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,

• biblecontext

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• 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,

• 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 And it shall be, if you do at all forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
• Jer 13:10 : 10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the imagination of their heart, and follow other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, will be like this belt, which is good for nothing.
• Jer 2:34 : 34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
• Exod 22:21-24 : 21 You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.
• Deut 6:14-15 : 14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people who are all around you; 15 (For the LORD your God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and destroy you from the face of the earth.
• Deut 11:28 : 28 And a curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
• Deut 24:17 : 17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:
• Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• 2 Kgs 21:6 : 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists: he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
• 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.
• Job 31:13-22 : 13 If I have despised the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When He visits, what shall I answer Him? 15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my portion alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it; 18 (For from my youth he was raised with me as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 19 If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 21 If I have lifted my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate; 22 Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and let my arm be broken at the bone.
• Ps 82:3-4 : 3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them from the hand of the wicked.
• Ps 106:38 : 38 And shed innocent blood, even 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 evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.
• Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Jer 19:4 : 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
• Jer 22:3-4 : 3 Thus says the LORD; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. 4 For if you do this thing indeed, then shall enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
• Jer 22:15-17 : 15 Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD. 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
• Jer 26:15 : 15 But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.
• Jer 26:23 : 23 And they brought Urijah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the tombs of the common people.
• Lam 4:13 : 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,
• Ezek 18:6 : 6 And has not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defiled his neighbor's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman,
• Ezek 22:3-6 : 3 Then say, Thus says the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in its midst, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself. 4 You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and have defiled yourself with your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years: therefore I have made you a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. 5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, who are infamous and much vexed. 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one, were in you using their power to shed blood.
• Zech 7:9-9 : 9 Thus says the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother: 10 And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you plot evil against his brother in your heart. 11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.
• Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
• Matt 23:35-37 : 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
• Matt 27:4 : 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See to that yourself.
• Matt 27:25 : 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us and on our children.
• Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
• Jer 7:5 : 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;