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Exodus 22:18-27 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

18. You shall not permit practitioners of the black arts to live.

19. Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal shall be put to death.

20. Whoever immolates to gods, other than to the Lord, shall be killed.

21. You shall not harass the newcomer, nor shall you afflict him. For you yourselves were once newcomers in the land of Egypt.

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.

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