17 (A)You shall not pervert the justice [a]due an alien or [b]an orphan, nor (B)take a widow’s garment in pledge. 18 But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

19 (C)When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be (D)for the alien, for the [c]orphan, and for the widow, in order that the Lord your God (E)may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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  1. Deuteronomy 24:17 Lit of
  2. Deuteronomy 24:17 Or the fatherless
  3. Deuteronomy 24:19 Or fatherless