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I want you[a] to share your food with the hungry
and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people.[b]
When you see someone naked, clothe them!
Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 58:7 tn Heb “Is it not?” The rhetorical question here expects a positive answer, “It is!”
  2. Isaiah 58:7 tn Heb “and afflicted [ones], homeless [ones] you should bring [into] a house.” On the meaning of מְרוּדִים (merudim, “homeless”) see HALOT 633 s.v. *מָרוּד.
  3. Isaiah 58:7 tn Heb “and from your flesh do not hide yourself.”

Is it not to share your food with the hungry(A)
    and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter(B)
when you see the naked, to clothe(C) them,
    and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?(D)

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