Deuteronomy 10:19

And ye shall love the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and he loves the stranger to give him food and raiment.

20Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt cleave to him, and shalt swear by his name.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:21Ye shall hurt no widow or orphan.

Deuteronomy 23:8Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, because he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

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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