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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 47:23

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47:23 In whatever tribe the foreigner resides, there you will give him his inheritance,” declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 22:29

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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 

Ezekiel 47:22

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47:22 You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. 4 

Ezekiel 14:7

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14:7 For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally.
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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.”

[47:22]  5 sn A similar attitude toward non-Israelites is found in Isa 56:3-8.



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