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Myles Coverdale Bible

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed be he, that wresteth ye righte of ye straunger, of the fatherlesse, & wedowe. And all the people shal saye, Amen.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aliens;   Amen;   Curse;   Hospitality;   Injustice;   Instruction;   Law;   Orphan;   Responsive Religious Service;   Reward;   Rulers;   Strangers;   Widow;   Word of God;   Worship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Aliens;   Duty;   Magistrates;   Nation, the;   Rulers;   Social Duties;   Social Life;   Strangers;   Warnings;   The Topic Concordance - Curses;   Judges;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fatherless;   Injustice;   Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ebal;   Gerizim;   Marriage;   Servant;   Stranger;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amen;   Child;   Curse;   Orphan;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Apostasy;   Blessing;   Curse, Accursed;   Justice;   Widow;   Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Amen;   Moses;   Widows;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amen;   Ebal;   Widow;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alien;   Amen;   Ark of the Covenant;   Blessing and Cursing;   Covenant;   Fatherless;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Bond ;   Synagogue;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amen;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gerizim;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Amen;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Stranger;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apostasy;   Covenant, in the Old Testament;   Fatherless;   Poor;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gentile;   Judaism;   Numbers, Book of;   Taḳḳanah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
‘The one who denies justice to a resident alien, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.’
Hebrew Names Version
Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amein.
King James Version
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Lexham English Bible
‘Cursed be the one who deprives the alien, the orphan, and the widow of justice.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.'
English Standard Version
"‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.'
New Century Version
"Anyone will be cursed who is unfair to foreigners, orphans, or widows." Then all the people will say, "Amen!"
New English Translation
‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.' Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!'
Amplified Bible
'Cursed is he who distorts (perverts) the justice due to a stranger, an orphan, and a widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
New American Standard Bible
'Cursed is one who distorts the justice due a stranger, an orphan, or a widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Geneva Bible (1587)
Cursed be he that hindreth the right of the stranger, the fatherles, and the widow: And all the people shal say: So be it.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘Cursed is he who perverts the justice due a sojourner, orphan, and widow.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.'
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘A curse on anyone who interferes with justice for the foreigner, orphan or widow.' All the people are to say, ‘Amen!'
Darby Translation
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow! And all the people shall say, Amen.
Easy-to-Read Version
"The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who does not give fair judgment for the foreigners, orphans, and widows!' "Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!'
George Lamsa Translation
Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Good News Translation
"‘God's curse on anyone who deprives foreigners, orphans, and widows of their rights.' "And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!'
Literal Translation
Cursed is he who perverts the judgment of the alien, the fatherless, and widow! And all the people shall say, Amen!
American Standard Version
Cursed be he that wresteth the justice due to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Bible in Basic English
Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Cursed be he that hindreth the ryght of the straunger, fatherlesse, and widdowe: & all the people shall say, Amen.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Cursed be he that perverteth the justice due to the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say: Amen.
King James Version (1611)
Cursed be hee that peruerteth the iudgement of the stranger, fatherlesse, and widow: and all the people shall say, Amen.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Cursed is every one that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it.
English Revised Version
Cursed be he that wresteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Berean Standard Bible
'Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.' And let all the people say, 'Amen!'
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He is cursid that peruertith the doom of a comelyng, of a fadirles, ethir modirles child, and of a widewe; and al the puple schal seie, Amen!
Young's Literal Translation
`Cursed [is] he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
Update Bible Version
Cursed be he that wrests the justice [due] to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Webster's Bible Translation
Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow: and all the people shall say, Amen.
World English Bible
Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.
New King James Version
"Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!'
New Living Translation
‘Cursed is anyone who denies justice to foreigners, orphans, or widows.' And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.'
New Life Bible
‘Cursed is the one who is not fair to a stranger, a child whose parents have died, and the woman whose husband has died.' And all the people will say, ‘Let it be so.'
New Revised Standard
"Cursed be anyone who deprives the alien, the orphan, and the widow of justice." All the people shall say, "Amen!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Cursed, be he that perverteth the right of the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow. And all the people shall say - Amen.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.
Revised Standard Version
"'Cursed be he who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Contextual Overview

11 And Moses charged the people the same daye, and sayde: 12 These shal stonde vpon mount Grisim to blesse the people, whan ye are gone ouer Iordane: Simeon, Leui, Iuda, Isachar, Ioseph, and Ben Iamin. 13 And these shal stonde vpon mount Eball to curse: Ruben, Gad, Asser, Zabulon, Dan & Nephtali. 14 And the Leuites shal begynne, and saye vnto euery man of Israel, wt a loude voyce: 15 Cursed be he, that maketh eny carued Idoll or molten ymage (an abhominacion of the LORDE, a worke of the handes of ye craftesman) and putteth it in a secrete place. And all the people shal answere and saye, Amen. 16 Cursed be he, that curseth his father and mother. And all the people shall saye, Amen. 17 Cursed be he, yt remoueth his neghbours mark. And all the people shal saye, Amen. 18 Cursed be he, that maketh a blynde man go out of his waye. And all the people shal saye, Amen. 19 Cursed be he, that wresteth ye righte of ye straunger, of the fatherlesse, & wedowe. And all the people shal saye, Amen. 20 Cursed be he, that lyeth with his fathers wife, to vncouer his fathers couerynge. And all the people shal saye, Amen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 10:18, Deuteronomy 24:17, Exodus 22:21-24, Exodus 23:2, Exodus 23:8, Exodus 23:9, Psalms 82:2-4, Proverbs 17:23, Proverbs 31:5, Micah 3:9, Malachi 3:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:22 - General Exodus 23:6 - General Leviticus 19:15 - General Deuteronomy 16:19 - wrest Job 22:9 - widows Proverbs 23:11 - General Jeremiah 7:6 - oppress Jeremiah 22:3 - do no violence Ezekiel 22:7 - dealt Zechariah 7:10 - oppress Luke 18:3 - a widow 1 Timothy 5:3 - widows

Cross-References

Genesis 25:25
The first that came forth, was reed, all rough as an hyde, and they called him Esau.
Genesis 27:3
Now therfore take thy geer, thy quyuer and thy bowe, and get the forth to the felde, and take me some venyson,
Genesis 27:4
and make me meate (soch as I loue) and brynge it me herein, that I may eate, yt my soule maye blesse the, before I dye.
Genesis 27:21
The sayde Isaac vnto Iacob: Come neare my sonne, that I maye fele the, whether thou be my sonne Esau or not.
Genesis 27:23
And he knew him not, for his handes were rough like as ye handes of his brother Esau. And he blessed him.
Genesis 27:24
And he sayde vnto him: art thou my sonsonne Esau? He answered: Yee I am.
Genesis 27:25
Then sayde he: Bringe me here then to eate of thy venyson my sonne, that my soule maye blesse the. Then he brought it him, and he ate: and he brought him wyne also, and he dranke.
1 Kings 13:18
He sayde vnto him: I myselfe am a prophet as well as thou, and an angell hath spoken with me by ye worde of the LORDE, and saide: Bringe him againe with the, that he maye eate bred, and drynke water. But he lyed vnto him,
1 Kings 14:2
and Ieroboam saide vnto his wyfe: Get the vp, and disguise the, so that no man perceaue that thou art Ieroboams wyfe, and go vnto Silo: beholde, there is the prophet Ahias, which promysed me yt I shulde be kynge ouer this people:
Isaiah 28:15
For ye coforte yor selues thus: Tush, death & we are at a poynte, & as for hell, we haue made a codicion with it: that though there breake out eny sore plage, it shal not come vpon vs. For with disceate wil we escape, and with nymblenes will we defende or selues.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger,

fatherless, and widow,.... Who have none to assist them, and take their part, and therefore judges may be tempted to do an unjust thing; but God is the patron of them, and takes notice of every injury done them, and is the avenger of all such:

and all the people shall say Amen; :-;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Joshua 8:32-35. The solemnity was apparently designed only for the single occasion on which it actually took place.

Deuteronomy 27:12, Deuteronomy 27:13

The tribes appointed to stand on Gerizim to bless the people all sprang from the two wives of Jacob, Leah and Rachel. All the four tribes which sprang from the handmaids Zilpah and Bilhah are located on Ebal. But in order, as it would seem, to effect an equal division, two tribes are added to the latter from the descendants of the wives, that of Reuben, probably because he forfeited his primogeniture Genesis 49:4; and of Zebulun, apparently because he was the youngest son of Leah.

The transaction presents itself as a solemn renewal of the covenant made by God with Abraham and Isaac, but more especially with Jacob and his family. Accordingly the genealogical basis of the “twelve patriarchs” (compare Acts 7:12; Revelation 7:4 ff), the sons of Jacob, is here assumed. The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh are merged in the name of Joseph, their father; and Levi regains on this occasion his place collaterally with the others. “The Levites” of Deuteronomy 27:14 are no doubt “the priests the Levites” (compareJoshua 8:33; Joshua 8:33), in whom the ministerial character attaching to the tribe was more particularly manifested. It is noteworthy that the group of tribes which stood on Gerizim far exceeded the other in numbers and in importance, thus perhaps indicating that even by the Law the blessing should at length prevail.

Deuteronomy 27:15

The “Amen” attested the conviction of the utterers that the sentences to which they responded were true, just, and certain; so in Numbers 5:22, and in our own Commination Office, which is modelled after this ordinance of Moses.

Deuteronomy 27:15-26

Twelve curses against transgressions of the covenant. The first eleven are directed against special sins which are selected by way of example, the last comprehensively sums up in general terms and condemns all and every offence against God’s Law. Compare the marginal references.


 
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