Exodus 23:9
"You shall not oppress a foreigner, for you know the heart of a foreigner, seeing you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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10"For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,
Cross References
Exodus 22:20"He who sacrifices to any god, except to the Lord only, shall be utterly destroyed.
Deuteronomy 10:19Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 27:19'Cursed is he who wrests the justice due the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Ezekiel 22:7In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Matthew 18:33Should not you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on 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 →