Deuteronomy 10:19

Love ye therefore the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

In Context

18He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

20Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; Him shalt thou serve; and to Him shalt thou cleave, and by His name shalt thou swear.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:21(22-20) And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 23:8(23-9) The children of the third generation that are born unto them may enter into the assembly of the LORD.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:13-22

Exhortation to Obedience. ( b. c. 1451.) 12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the Lord , and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord 's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to… Read the whole commentary →

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