Deuteronomy 23:16

Mercy and compassion The stranger and outcast Protection and safety

¹⁴ For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.

¹⁵ Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.

Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.

¹⁷ No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

¹⁸ You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
KJV: He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
WEB: He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.
ASV: he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it pleaseth him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
DARBY: he shall dwell with thee, even in thy midst, in the place that he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it seemeth good to him; thou shalt not oppress him.
BLB: He will dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he chooses, within one of your gates, where it is pleasing to him. You shall not oppress him.

ÅB: Han skal bli hos deg i ditt land på det sted han utvelger seg i en av dine byer, hvor det tykkes ham best; du skal ikke være hård imot ham.
OTB: La dem bo blant dere hvor de enn velger, i hvilken som helst by de foretrekker. Ikke undertrykk dem.
B1930: Han skal bli hos dig i ditt land på det sted han utvelger sig i en av dine byer, hvor det tykkes ham best; du skal ikke være hård imot ham.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Exodus 22:21
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
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Exodus 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.
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Zechariah 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.’
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Isaiah 16:3–4
“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
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Malachi 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.
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Jeremiah 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,
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Titus 3:2–3
to malign no one, and to be peaceable and gentle, showing full consideration to everyone.
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