Exodus 23:9
You shall not harass a sojourner, for you know the life of a newcomer. For you yourselves also were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
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In Context
8Neither shall you accept bribes, which blind even the prudent and subvert the words of the just.
10For six years, you shall sow your land and gather its produce.
Cross References
Exodus 22:20Whoever immolates to gods, other than to the Lord, shall be killed.
Deuteronomy 10:19Therefore, you also should love sojourners, for you also were new arrivals in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 27:19Cursed be he who subverts the judgment of the new arrival, the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say: Amen.
Ezekiel 22:7They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.
Matthew 18:33Therefore, should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I also had compassion on you?’
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 →