Keluaran 22:21

22:21 “You must not wrong ¹  a foreigner ²  nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Ulangan 24:19

24:19 Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, ³  you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the Lord your God may bless all the work you do. ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 22:7

22:7 They have treated father and mother with contempt ⁵  within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow ⁶  within you.

[22:21]  ¹ tn Or “oppress.”

[22:21]  ² tn Or “alien,” both here and in 23:9. This individual is a resident foreigner; he lives in the land but, aside from provisions such as this, might easily be without legal rights.

[24:19]  ³ tn Heb “in the field.”

[24:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “of your hands.” This law was later applied in the story of Ruth who, as a poor widow, was allowed by generous Boaz to glean in his fields (Ruth 2:1-13).

[22:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “treated lightly, cursed.”

[22:7]  ⁶ 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.