Exodus 23:9
And you do not oppress a sojourner, since you have known the soul of the sojourner, for you have been sojourners in the land of Egypt.
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In Context
10And [for] six years you sow your land and have gathered its increase;
Cross References
Exodus 22:20He who is sacrificing to a god, except to YHWH alone, is devoted.
Deuteronomy 10:19And you have loved the sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 27:19“Cursed [is] he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”
Ezekiel 22:7They have made light of father and mother in you, || They dealt oppressively to a sojourner in your midst, || They oppressed fatherless and widow in you.
Matthew 18:33did it not seem necessary to you to have dealt kindly with your fellow servant, as I also dealt kindly with 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 →