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Exodus 22.24:

my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.

Deuteronomy 14.29:

the Levites, because they have no allotment or inheritance with you, as well as the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work that you undertake.

Deuteronomy 16.11:

Rejoice before the Lord your God—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, the Levites resident in your towns, as well as the strangers, the orphans, and the widows who are among you—at the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.

Deuteronomy 16.14:

Rejoice during your festival, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, as well as the Levites, the strangers, the orphans, and the widows resident in your towns.

Deuteronomy 26.12:

When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year (which is the year of the tithe), giving it to the Levites, the aliens, the orphans, and the widows, so that they may eat their fill within your towns,

Deuteronomy 26.13:

then you shall say before the Lord your God: ‘I have removed the sacred portion from the house, and I have given it to the Levites, the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows, in accordance with your entire commandment that you commanded me; I have neither transgressed nor forgotten any of your commandments:

Job 22.9:

You have sent widows away empty-handed,
and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.^*

Psalm 68.5:

Father of orphans and protector of widows
is God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 109.9:

May his children be orphans,
and his wife a widow.

Proverbs 23.10:

Do not remove an ancient landmark
or encroach on the fields of orphans,

Isaiah 9.17:

That is why the Lord did not have pity on^* their young people,
   or compassion on their orphans and widows;
for everyone was godless and an evildoer,
   and every mouth spoke folly.
For all this, his anger has not turned away;
   his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 10.2:

to turn aside the needy from justice
and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be your spoil,
and that you may make the orphans your prey!

Jeremiah 49.11:

Leave your orphans, I will keep them alive;
and let your widows trust in me.

Lamentations of Jeremiah 5.3:

We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are like widows.

Tobit 1.8:

A third tenth^* I would give to the orphans and widows and to the converts who had attached themselves to Israel. I would bring it and give it to them in the third year, and we would eat it according to the ordinance decreed concerning it in the law of Moses and according to the instructions of Deborah, the mother of my father Tobiel,^* for my father had died and left me an orphan.

Ecclesiasticus 4.10:

Be a father to orphans,
and be like a husband to their mother;
you will then be like a son of the Most High,
and he will love you more than does your mother.

2 Maccabees 3.10:

The high priest explained that there were some deposits belonging to widows and orphans,

2 Maccabees 8.28:

After the sabbath they gave some of the spoils to those who had been tortured and to the widows and orphans, and distributed the rest among themselves and their children.

2 Maccabees 8.30:

In encounters with the forces of Timothy and Bacchides they killed more than twenty thousand of them and got possession of some exceedingly high strongholds, and they divided a very large amount of plunder, giving to those who had been tortured and to the orphans and widows, and also to the aged, shares equal to their own.

1 Thessalonians 2.17:

As for us, brothers and sisters,^* when, for a short time, we were made orphans by being separated from you—in person, not in heart—we longed with great eagerness to see you face to face.