24:17 You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.
1 tn Heb “just as a man disciplines his son.” The Hebrew text reflects the patriarchal idiom of the culture.
2 tn Or “who executes justice for” (so NAB, NRSV); NLT “gives justice to.”
3 tn Presumably this would not refer to a land inheritance, since that was forbidden to the descendants of Levi (v. 1). More likely it referred to some family possessions (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, CEV) or other private property (cf. NLT “a private source of income”), or even support sent by relatives (cf. TEV “whatever his family sends him”).