Orphans in Biblical History

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What are Orphans?
OR'PHANS
Special privileges were accorded to them by the Mosaic Law, as well as to the widow and stranger, Deut 14:21, and special kindness and leniency enjoined toward them. Deut 24:17. Job adduced it as one of his merits that he had helped the fatherless. Job 29:12, etc. James, Jas 1:27, classes the visitation of orphans amongst the acts of pure and undefiled religion. The word, John 14:18 translated "comfortless" is "orphans" in the Greek.

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