Doctrine and Covenants 136: 8

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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

SECTION 136

8 Let each company ^abear an equal proportion, according to the dividend of their property, in taking the poor, the ^bwidows, the ^cfatherless, and the families of those who have gone into the army, that the cries of the widow and the ^dfatherless come not up into the ears of the Lord against this people.

Footnotes

8a	D&C 38: 24 (24-27) 24 And let every man ^aesteem his brother as himself, and practise ^bvirtue and holiness before me.
b	TG Poor. TG Widows.
c	Ps. 68: 5. 5 A father of the ^afatherless, and a ^bjudge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. Ps. 146: 9 (1-10) 9 The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the ^afatherless and ^bwidow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. James 1: 27 (25-27) 27 Pure ^areligion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To ^bvisit the ^cfatherless and ^dwidows in their ^eaffliction, and to keep himself ^funspotted from ^gthe ^hworld.
d	3 Ne. 24: 5. 5 And I will come ^anear to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the ^bsorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false ^cswearers, and against those that ^doppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the ^efatherless, and that turn aside the ^fstranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord of Hosts.