You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 24 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The insistence on justice for the widow who is truly desolate echoes the command not to deprive the sojourner or fatherless of justice, nor take a widow's garment in pledge. The church inherits the Deuteronomic charge to shield the widow from neglect.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Deuteronomy commands not to pervert the justice due to the sojourner or fatherless and not to take a widow's garment in pledge. The unjust judge embodies the legal failure this law targets, while God is the true judge who defends the widow's case ('Defend me from my adversary'). Coherent with the legal-vindication theme though more diffuse than Sirach.
Medium confidenceThe law forbidding the perversion of justice due the widow and the taking of her garment in pledge stands behind the 'widows' houses' charge. Faint volume on its own, listed as part of the Torah widow-protection backdrop alongside Exodus 22:22.
Low confidenceThe Torah's prohibition against perverting justice due the widow or taking her garment in pledge frames widows as the paradigmatic protected class. Jesus' charge that the scribes devour widows' houses presupposes this legal duty of care that they have inverted.
Low confidence