Exodus 23:9
Good News Translation
"Do not mistreat a foreigner; you know how it feels to be a foreigner, because you were foreigners in Egypt.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Contemporary English Version
Don't mistreat foreigners. You were foreigners in Egypt, and you know what it is like.

New American Bible
You shall not oppress a resident alien; you well know how it feels to be an alien, since you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

thou shalt not

Exodus 21:21 But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.

Deuteronomy 10:19 And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 24:14-18 Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor, whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates: . . .

Deuteronomy 27:19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Psalm 94:6 They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless.

Ezekiel 22:7 They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.

ye know

Matthew 18:33 Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had compassion on thee?

Hebrews 2:17,18 Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people. . . .

heart.

Context
Justice and Mercy
8Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just. 9Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Cross References
Exodus 22:21
Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:33
If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not upbraid hin:

Deuteronomy 23:7
Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

Deuteronomy 24:17
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.

Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Ezekiel 22:7
They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.

Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they oppressed the stranger by calumny without judgment.

Exodus 23:8
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