17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
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Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. …
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-22)Here, I. Masters are commanded to be just to their poor servants, Deut. 24:14 , 15 . 1. They must not oppress them, by overloading them with work, by giving them undue and unreasonable rebukes, or by withholding from them proper maintenance. A servant, though a stranger to the commonwealth of Israel, must not be abused: “For thou wast a bondman in the land where thou wast a stranger (Deut. 24:18),…
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