Exodus 22:23

If thou afflict him in any wise, and he cry at all unto me, I will surely hear his cry so the Heb., making it probable that vv.21b, 22 (which are moreover distinguished from the context by the plur. ye), 24 (which will naturally go with v.22) are an addition to the original text. It is true, there are not unfrequent cases in poetry, when a class of persons has been spoken of, of their being referred to individually by a sing. pronoun (see G.-K. § 145m; and the passages collected in the writer's Jeremiah, p. 362); but this is very unusual in prose: such passages as Genesis 2:19; Leviticus 21:7; Leviticus 25:31; Deuteronomy 7:3; Joshua 24:7; Judges 12:5; Judges 21:6, are hardly parallel to the present one.

cry… unto me cf. Deuteronomy 15:9; Deuteronomy 24:15; also James 5:4.