Leviticus 19:33
31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
- KJV
- And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
- WEB
- “‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
- ASV
- And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.
- DARBY
- And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not molest him.
- BLB
- And if a sojourner sojourns with you in your⁺ land, you⁺ shall not oppress him.
- ÅB
- Når en fremmed bor hos dere i deres land, da skal dere ikke undertrykke ham.
- OTB
- Når en fremmed bor blant dere i deres land, skal dere ikke mishandle ham.
- B1930
- Når en fremmed bor hos eder i eders land, da skal I ikke undertrykke ham.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 22:21
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Read in contextExodus 23:9
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Read in contextJeremiah 7:6
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Read in contextDeuteronomy 24:14
Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
Read in contextMalachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 10:18–19
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:7
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
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