Jeremiah 7:6
New English Translation
6 Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands.[a] Stop killing innocent people[b] in this land. Stop paying allegiance to[c] other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.[d]
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- Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “Stop oppressing resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.”sn Cf. Exod 22:21; Lev 19:33-34; Deut 10:18-19; 24:14, 17; 27:19.
- Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “Stop shedding innocent blood.”
- Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “going/following after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom involved here.
- Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “going after other gods to your ruin.”
Jeremiah 7:6
New International Version
6 if you do not oppress(A) the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood(B) in this place, and if you do not follow other gods(C) to your own harm,
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