Deuteronomy 10:19

Love ye then the stranger; for you have been strangers in the land of Egypt.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18Who executeth justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

20The Lord thy God shalt thou fear: 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 thou shalt not vex, and shalt not oppress him; for strangers ye were in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 23:8(23:9) The children that are born unto them in the third generation, may enter of them into the congregation 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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