"... Since these prophetic texts are from the late monarchy and early exilic period, as are the references in Deuteronomy and the Holiness Code, there is no need to tie concern for the ger to this particular historical event of the late eighth century. The combined concerns of Exodus 22:20–21 belong to the same horizon as the exilic prophetic texts and the other two law codes on which it is dependent. In recent traditio-historical discussions on the combination of these three, the stranger, orphan, and widow, much has been made of the order and arrangement of these groups. It has been observed that within the Deuteronomic tradition generally, there is a fairly fixed order of “stranger-orphan-widow”, which is also followed in Jeremiah 7:6; 22:3; Ezekiel 22:7 (but orphan-widow-stranger in Deuteronomy 10:18). The order in the Covenant Code, however, is different, with the sequence of widow-orphan. Lohfink takes from this the view that the Covenant Code does not yet reflect the fixed formula of Deuteronomy, but in Zechariah 7:10 and Malachi 3:5 the order corresponds to that of the Covenant Code ..."