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Ezekiel 22:7

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22:7 They have treated father and mother with contempt 1  within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow 2  within you.

Ezekiel 22:29

Context
22:29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice. 3 

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[22:7]  1 tn Heb “treated lightly, cursed.”

[22:7]  2 tn Widows and orphans are often coupled together in the OT (Deut 14:29; 16:11, 14; 24:19-21; 26:12-13; Jer 7:6; 22:3). They represented all who were poor and vulnerable to economic exploitation.

[22:29]  3 tn Heb “and the foreigner they have oppressed without justice.”



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