Catholic Public Domain Version

Exodus 22:22-31 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

22. You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.

23. If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry.

24. And my fury will be enraged, and I will strike you down with the sword. And your wives will become widows, and your sons will become orphans.

25. If you lend money to the poor of my people who live among you, you shall not coerce them like a collector, nor oppress them with usury.

26. If you take a garment from your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him again before the setting of the sun.

27. For it is all that he has to cover himself, to clothe his body; nor does he have anything else in which to sleep. If he cries out to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

28. You shall not disparage the heavens, and you shall not speak evil of the leader of your people.

29. You shall not delay in paying your tithes and your first-fruits. You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

30. You shall do likewise with those of the oxen and the sheep. For seven days, let it be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall repay it to me.

31. You shall be holy men for me. The flesh, from which beasts will have tasted, you shall not eat, but you will throw it to the dogs."