Deuteronomy 10:19

Be loving then to the stranger, for you were sojourners in the land of Mizraim.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18He executeth judgment for the orphan and the widow, and hath pity on the stranger to give him food and raiment.

20Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve before Him; to His fear thou shalt keep close, and shalt swear by His Name;

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Cross References

Exodus 22:21Afflict not the widow or the orphan:

Deuteronomy 23:8Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor a Mizraite, for thou wast a sojourner 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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