27 because that cloak is the only covering your neighbour has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

28 ‘Do not blaspheme God[a] or curse the ruler of your people.

29 ‘Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats.[b]

‘You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:28 Or Do not revile the judges
  2. Exodus 22:29 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

27 because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in?(A) When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.(B)

28 “Do not blaspheme God[a](C) or curse(D) the ruler of your people.(E)

29 “Do not hold back offerings(F) from your granaries or your vats.[b]

“You must give me the firstborn of your sons.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:28 Or Do not revile the judges
  2. Exodus 22:29 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.