11 and you shall (A)rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and (B)the Levite who is in your [a]town, and (C)the stranger and the [b]orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.

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  1. Deuteronomy 16:11 Lit gates
  2. Deuteronomy 16:11 Or fatherless

14 and you shall (A)rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite and the stranger and the [a]orphan and the widow who are in your [b]towns.

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  1. Deuteronomy 16:14 Or fatherless
  2. Deuteronomy 16:14 Lit gates

19 (A)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 (B)for the alien, for the [a]orphan, and for the widow, in order that the Lord your God (C)may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 (D)When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs [b]again; it shall be (E)for the alien, for the [c]orphan, and for the widow.

21 “When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not [d]go over it again; it shall be for the alien, for the [e]orphan, and for the widow.

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  1. Deuteronomy 24:19 Or fatherless
  2. Deuteronomy 24:20 Lit after yourself
  3. Deuteronomy 24:20 Or fatherless
  4. Deuteronomy 24:21 Lit glean it after yourself
  5. Deuteronomy 24:21 Or fatherless

12 (A)When you have finished [a]paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the [b]orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your [c]towns and be satisfied.

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  1. Deuteronomy 26:12 Lit tithing
  2. Deuteronomy 26:12 Or fatherless
  3. Deuteronomy 26:12 Lit gates

They (A)slay the widow and the [a]stranger
And murder the orphans.

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  1. Psalm 94:6 Or sojourner

17 Learn to do good;
(A)Seek justice,
Reprove the ruthless,
[a](B)Defend the orphan,
Plead for the widow.

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  1. Isaiah 1:17 Or Vindicate the fatherless