Exodus 23:9
And thou shall not oppress a sojourner, for ye know the heart of a sojourner, since ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10And six years thou shall sow thy land, and shall gather in the increase of it,
Cross References
Exodus 22:20He who sacrifices to any god, except to LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.
Deuteronomy 10:19Love ye therefore the sojourner, for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 27:19Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Ezekiel 22:7In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Matthew 18:33Was it not necessary for thee also to be merciful to thy fellow bondman, as I also was merciful to thee?
Matthew Henry on Exodus 23:2-10
Judicial Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: 3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. 4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help… Read the whole commentary →