Exodus 22:21
19 Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death.
20 If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
22 You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
23 If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- KJV
- Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- WEB
- “You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
- ASV
- And a sojourner shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
- DARBY
- Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.
- BLB
- And a sojourner you shall not oppress and you shall not crush, for you⁺ were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
- ÅB
- En fremmed skal du ikke plage og ikke undertrykke; for dere har selv vært fremmede i Egypt.
- OTB
- «Ikke undertrykk eller mishandle en fremmed, for dere var fremmede i landet Egypt.
- B1930
- En fremmed skal du ikke plage og ikke undertrykke; for I har selv vært fremmede i Egyptens land.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 10:19
So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Read in contextExodus 23:9
Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Read in contextLeviticus 19:33
When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
Read in contextZechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
Read in contextMalachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 23:7
Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
Read in contextJeremiah 7:6
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
Read in contextExodus 20:2
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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