Exodus 23:9
Don't abuse foreigners living among you, since you know very well what it's like to be foreigners, for you were once foreigners in Egypt.
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10Six years you are to sow your land and harvest crops,
Cross References
Exodus 22:20Anyone who sacrifices to any other god than the Lord must be set apart and executed.
Deuteronomy 10:19You too must love the foreigner because you yourselves were once foreigners in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 27:19“A curse on anyone who doesn't treat foreigners, the orphans, and widows fairly!” Everyone says “Amen!”
Ezekiel 22:7You despise your parents. You exploit the foreigners who live with you, and you mistreat orphans and widows.
Matthew 18:33Shouldn't you have been merciful to your fellow-servant as well, just as I was merciful to 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 →