Exodus 23:9
Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
10For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,
Cross References
Exodus 22:20If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.
Deuteronomy 10:19So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 27:19‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
Matthew 18:33Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had 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 →