What does Deuteronomy 24:17 mean?
ESV: “You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge,
NIV: Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.
NASB: You shall not pervert the justice due a stranger or an orphan, nor seize a widow’s garment as a pledge.
CSB: Do not deny justice to a resident alien or fatherless child, and do not take a widow's garment as security.
NLT: True justice must be given to foreigners living among you and to orphans, and you must never accept a widow’s garment as security for her debt.
KJV: Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
NKJV: “You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge.
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