Deuteronomy 27:19
27:19 ‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:2
27:2 When you cross the Jordan River
to the land the
Lord your God is giving you, you must erect great stones and cover
them with plaster.
Deuteronomy 14:5-24
14:5 the ibex,
the gazelle,
the deer,
the wild goat, the antelope,
the wild oryx,
and the mountain sheep.
14:6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.
14:7 However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger.
(Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).
14:8 Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves,
it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.
14:9 These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,
14:10 but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.
14:11 All ritually clean birds you may eat.
14:12 These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle,
the vulture,
the black vulture,
14:13 the kite, the black kite, the dayyah
after its species,
14:14 every raven after its species,
14:15 the ostrich,
the owl,
the seagull, the falcon
after its species,
14:16 the little owl, the long-eared owl, the white owl,
14:17 the jackdaw,
the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
14:18 the stork, the heron after its species, the hoopoe, the bat,
14:19 and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you – they may not be eaten.
14:20 You may eat any clean bird.
14:21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages
and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the
Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
The Offering of Tribute
14:22 You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.
14:23 In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.
14:24 When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,
Job 22:9
22:9 you sent widows away empty-handed,
and the arms of the orphans you crushed.
Job 29:13
29:13 the blessing of the dying man descended on me,
and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;
Isaiah 1:17
1:17 Learn to do what is right!
Promote justice!
Give the oppressed reason to celebrate!
Take up the cause of the orphan!
Defend the rights of the widow!
Isaiah 1:21-23
Purifying Judgment
1:21 How tragic that the once-faithful city
has become a prostitute!
She was once a center of justice,
fairness resided in her,
but now only murderers.
1:22 Your silver has become scum,
your beer is diluted with water.
1:23 Your officials are rebels,
they associate with thieves.
All of them love bribery,
and look for payoffs.
They do not take up the cause of the orphan,
or defend the rights of the widow.
Jeremiah 5:28
5:28 That is how they have grown fat and sleek.
There is no limit to the evil things they do.
They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it.
They do not defend the rights of the poor.