Exodus 23:9
Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
8Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.
10Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof.
Cross References
Exodus 22:20He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 10:19And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 27:19Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.
Ezekiel 22:7They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.
Matthew 18:33Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had compassion on 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 →