Never move an old property line that your ancestors established.

"Do not move your neighbor's property line, established long ago in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

" 'God's curse on anyone who moves a neighbor's property line.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'

People move property lines to get more land; they steal sheep and put them with their own flocks.

You would even roll dice for orphan slaves and make yourselves rich off your closest friends!

You not only refused to help widows, but you also robbed and mistreated orphans.

They take donkeys that belong to orphans, and keep a widow's ox till she pays her debts.

Evil people make slaves of fatherless infants and take the children of the poor in payment for debts.

If I have ever cheated an orphan, knowing I could win in court,

Because I fear God's punishment, I could never do such a thing.

They kill widows and orphans, and murder the strangers who live in our land.

"Change the way you are living and stop doing the things you are doing. Be fair in your treatment of one another.

"I, the LORD, command you to do what is just and right. Protect the person who is being cheated from the one who is cheating him. Do not mistreat or oppress aliens, orphans, or widows; and do not kill innocent people in this holy place.

Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners who live among you, or anyone else in need. And do not plan ways of harming one another.'

The LORD Almighty says, "I will appear among you to judge, and I will testify at once against those who practice magic, against adulterers, against those who give false testimony, those who cheat employees out of their wages, and those who take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners---against all who do not respect me.

What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted by the world.