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Contemporary English Version

Deuteronomy 10:18

The Lord defends the rights of orphans and widows. He cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Children;   God Continued...;   Hospitality;   Orphan;   Strangers;   Widow;   Thompson Chain Reference - Fatherless;   Orphans;   Promises, Divine;   Widow and Fatherless;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Judges;   Love;   Strangers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fatherless;   Garments;   Love of God, the;   Strangers in Israel;   Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Stranger;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Foreigner;   Hospitality;   Moses;   Orphan;   Widow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Golden Rule;   Hospitality;   Neighbor;   Testimony;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Citizenship;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proselytes;   Stranger;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cloth, Clothing;   Fatherless;   Hospitality;   Justice;   Poor, Orphan, Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Ethics;   Pity;   Poverty;   Sin;   Stranger;   Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Kindness (2);   Stranger;   Stranger, Alien, Foreigner;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Stranger;   Testament;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Execute;   Fatherless;   Relationships, Family;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aquila (Βλώμβσ);   Charity and Charitable Institutions;   Ethics;   Gentile;   God;   Hospitality;   Judaism;   Proselyte;   Widow;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 2;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving him food and clothing.
Hebrew Names Version
He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner, in giving him food and clothing.
King James Version
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Lexham English Bible
And he executes justice for the orphan and widow, and he is one who loves the alien, to give to them food and clothing.
English Standard Version
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
New Century Version
He helps orphans and widows, and he loves foreigners and gives them food and clothes.
New English Translation
who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.
Amplified Bible
"He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the stranger (resident alien, foreigner) by giving him food and clothing.
New American Standard Bible
"He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the stranger by giving him food and clothing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who doeth right vnto the fatherlesse and widowe, & loueth the stranger, giuing him foode and rayment.
Legacy Standard Bible
He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows love for the sojourner by giving him food and clothing.
Complete Jewish Bible
He secures justice for the orphan and the widow; he loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Darby Translation
who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing.
Easy-to-Read Version
He defends widows and orphans. He loves even the strangers living among us. He gives them food and clothes.
George Lamsa Translation
He does execute justice for the fatherless and the widows, and loves him who turns to him, and gives him food and clothing.
Good News Translation
He makes sure that orphans and widows are treated fairly; he loves the foreigners who live with our people, and gives them food and clothes.
Literal Translation
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, to give to him food and clothing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and doeth righte vnto the fatherlesse and wedowe, and loueth the straunger, to geue him fode & rayment.
American Standard Version
He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.
Bible in Basic English
Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He doth right vnto the fatherlesse and wydowe, and loueth the straunger, to geue hym foode and rayment.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
King James Version (1611)
He doeth execute the iudgement of the fatherlesse, and widow, and loueth the stranger, in giuing him food and raiment.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and he loves the stranger to give him food and raiment.
English Revised Version
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Berean Standard Bible
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He makith doom to the fadirles, and modirles, and to the widewe; he loueth a pilgrym, and yyueth to hym lyiflode and clothing.
Young's Literal Translation
He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.
Update Bible Version
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.
Webster's Bible Translation
He executeth the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
World English Bible
He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner, in giving him food and clothing.
New King James Version
He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
New Living Translation
He ensures that orphans and widows receive justice. He shows love to the foreigners living among you and gives them food and clothing.
New Life Bible
He does what is right and fair for the child without parents and the woman whose husband has died. He shows His love for the stranger by giving him food and clothing.
New Revised Standard
who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
executing the vindication of the orphan and the widow, - and loving sojourner, giving him food and raiment.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.
Revised Standard Version
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.

Contextual Overview

12 Moses said: People of Israel, what does the Lord your God want from you? The Lord wants you to respect and follow him, to love and serve him with all your heart and soul, 13 and to obey his laws and teachings that I am giving you today. Do this, and all will go well for you. 14 Everything belongs to the Lord your God, not only the earth and everything on it, but also the sky and the highest heavens. 15 Yet the Lord loved your ancestors and wanted them to belong to him. So he chose them and their descendants rather than any other nation, and today you are still his people. 16 Remember your agreement with the Lord and stop being so stubborn. 17 The Lord your God is more powerful than all other gods and lords, and his tremendous power is to be feared. His decisions are always fair, and you cannot bribe him to change his mind. 18 The Lord defends the rights of orphans and widows. He cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing. 19 And you should also care for them, because you were foreigners in Egypt. 20 Respect the Lord your God, serve only him, and make promises in his name alone. 21 Offer your praises to him, because you have seen him work such terrifying miracles for you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

doth: Psalms 68:5, Psalms 103:6, Psalms 146:9, Isaiah 1:17, Jeremiah 49:11, Hosea 14:3

loveth: Psalms 145:9, Matthew 5:45, Acts 14:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:22 - General Leviticus 19:33 - And if Leviticus 25:35 - a stranger Deuteronomy 1:16 - the stranger Deuteronomy 13:14 - General Deuteronomy 27:19 - General Deuteronomy 32:4 - all his 2 Chronicles 19:7 - respect of persons Job 29:12 - the fatherless Psalms 10:14 - helper Psalms 82:3 - Defend Psalms 99:4 - executest Proverbs 15:25 - but Jeremiah 22:3 - do no violence Zechariah 7:9 - saying 1 Timothy 5:3 - widows Hebrews 13:2 - not

Cross-References

Numbers 34:8
After that, it will run to Lebo-Hamath and across to Zedad, which is the northern edge of your land.
2 Samuel 8:9
King Toi of Hamath and King Hadadezer had been enemies. So when Toi heard that David had attacked and defeated Hadadezer's whole army, he sent his son Joram to praise and congratulate David. Joram also brought him gifts made of silver, gold, and bronze.
2 Kings 17:24
The king of Assyria took people who were living in the cities of Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and forced them to move to Israel. They took over the towns where the Israelites had lived, including the capital city of Samaria.
2 Kings 17:30
The people from Babylonia made the god Succoth-Benoth; those from Cuthah made the god Nergal; those from Hamath made Ashima;
2 Chronicles 13:4
Abijah went to the top of Mount Zemaraim in the hills of Ephraim and shouted: Listen, Jeroboam and all you Israelites!
Isaiah 10:9
They have already captured the cities of Calno, Carchemish, Hamath, Arpad, Samaria, and Damascus.
Ezekiel 27:8
Men from Sidon and Arvad did the rowing, and your own skilled workers were the captains.
Zechariah 9:2
Judgment will also fall on the nearby city of Hamath, as well as on Tyre and Sidon, whose people are clever.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow,.... Who have none to help them, and whose patron and defender he is, and will do them justice himself, and take care that it is done them by others, or avenge their injuries, for he is a Father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widow, in his holy habitation; Psalms 68:5

and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment; one that is in a foreign country, at a distance from his native land, and destitute of friends; such God in his providence takes care of, and expresses his love and kindness to, by giving them the necessaries of life, food, and raiment.


 
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