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Deuteronomy 27:19

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 27:19 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    ‘Cursed is the one who twists a judgment of a foreigner, fatherless, or widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Cursed be he that wresteth the justice `due' to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Cursed be he that wresteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Cursed be he that hindreth the right of the stranger, the fatherles, and the widow: And all the people shall say: So be it.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `Cursed `is' he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    “Cursed [is] he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    'May the man be cursed who uses force to take away the justice due to a foreigner, fatherless, or widow.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    ‘Cursed is the one who twists a judgment of a foreigner, fatherless, or widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow! And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow: and all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    “A curse on anyone who doesn't treat foreigners, the orphans, and widows fairly!” Everyone says “Amen!”
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Cursed be he that perverteth the justice due to the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say: Amen.

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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10
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10
distinct lemmas
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Shared distinctive vocabulary

אָמֵֽן truly H543 occurs in 24 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 6 nouns
  • 1 adverb

Verb forms

  • אָר֗וּר Qal · Participle Passive
  • מַטֶּ֛ה Hiphil · Participle Active
  • וְאָמַ֥ר Qal · Sequential Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 25 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 27:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 10:18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
  • Deuteronomy 24:17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
  • Exodus 22:21–24 "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
  • Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
  • Psalms 82:2–4 "How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.
  • Proverbs 17:23 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, To pervert the ways of justice.
  • Malachi 3:5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Hosts.
  • Exodus 23:8–9 You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
  • Proverbs 31:5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
  • Micah 3:9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice, And pervert all equity.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew Deuteronomy 27:19 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אָר֗וּר מַטֶּ֛ה מִשְׁפַּ֥ט גֵּר יָת֖וֹם וְאַלְמָנָ֑ה וְאָמַ֥ר כָּל הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן

Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 27:19 Septuagint · lemma form

ἐπικατάρατος ὅς ἄν ἐκκλίνω κρίσις προσήλυτος καί ὀρφανός καί χήρα καί εἶπον πᾶς ὁ λαός γίγνομαι

Cursed is every one that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    לִיטּ דְיַצְלֵי דִין דַיַר יִתַּמָא וְאַרְמְלָא וְיֵימַר כָּל עַמָא אָמֵן

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    לִיט דְיַצְלֵי דִין דַיָיר יִתַּם וְאַרְמְלָא הֲווֹן עַנְיַין כֻּלְהוֹן כַּחֲדָא וְאָמְרִין אָמֵן

    Accursed be he who perverteth the judgment of the stranger, the widow, and the fatherless. And all shall answer together, and say, Amen.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Deuteronomy 27:19 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

27:19 It would be easy to put foreigners, orphans, and widows at a legal disadvantage or to deny them justice altogether (see 10:18; 24:17).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

19. See on Deu_24:17; E, Exo_22:21-24; Exo_23:9; H, Lev_19:33 f.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger,

fatherless, and widow,.... Who have none to assist them, and take their part, and therefore judges may be tempted to do an unjust thing; but God is the patron of them, and takes notice of every injury done them, and is the avenger of all such:

and all the people shall say Amen; See Gill on Deu 27:15; See Gill on Deu 27:16.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

CHAPTER XXVII.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

The Pulpit Commentary

cf. Deu_24:17

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼâmên (“truly”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “truly” (ʼâmên) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Numbers 5:22 shares the word «truly» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  4. The verb «אָר֗וּר» is Qal Participle Passive. How does its form color the action?
  5. Reading how Tyndale Open Study Notes and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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