Deuteronomy 10:19

Therefore shall ye love the sojourner,—for sojourners, became ye in the land of Egypt.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18executing the vindication of the orphan and the widow,—and loving a sojourner, giving him food and raiment.

20Yahweh thy God, shalt thou revere, Him, shalt thou serve,—And unto him, shalt thou cleave, And in his name, shalt thou swear.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:21And, a sojourner, shalt thou not tread down neither shalt thou drive him away,—for sojourners, ye became in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 23:8the sons who are born to them, of the third generation, may enter unto them in the convocation of Yahweh.

Luke 10:28And he said unto him—Rightly, hast thou answered: This, do, and thou shalt live.

Galatians 6:10Hence, then, as we have opportunity, let us be working what is good, towards all,—but, especially, towards the family of the faith.

1 John 3:17But, whoso hath this world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother having, need, and shutteth up his tender affections from him, how, is, the love of God, abiding in him?

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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