405 B

Raw Blame History

They drive away

"They steal"

those without fathers

"orphans" or "children whose parents have died"

they take the widow's ox as a pledge

"they take widows' oxen to guarantee that the widows will pay back the money that they loaned to those widows"

widow

a woman whose husband has died

as a pledge

A lender would take something from a borrower to ensure that the borrower pays him back.