Exodus 23:9
Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for all of you know the heart of a stranger, seeing all of you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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In Context
8And you shall take no gift: for the gift blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
10And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the fruits thereof:
Cross References
Exodus 22:20He that sacrifices unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
Deuteronomy 10:19Love all of you therefore the stranger: for all of you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 27:19Cursed be he that perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And 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 stranger: in you have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Matthew 18:33Should not you also have had compassion on your fellow servant, even as I had pity 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 →