(A)You shall not oppress a [a]stranger, since you yourselves know the [b]feelings of a [c]stranger, for you also were [d]strangers in the land of Egypt.

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  1. Exodus 23:9 Or sojourner(s)
  2. Exodus 23:9 Lit soul
  3. Exodus 23:9 Or sojourner(s)
  4. Exodus 23:9 Or sojourner(s)

33 (A)When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 34 The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and (B)you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

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Of Poor Countrymen

35 (A)Now in case a [a]countryman of yours becomes poor and his [b]means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.

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  1. Leviticus 25:35 Lit brother
  2. Leviticus 25:35 Lit hand

16 “Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your [a]fellow countrymen, and (A)judge righteously between a man and his [b]fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him.

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  1. Deuteronomy 1:16 Lit brothers
  2. Deuteronomy 1:16 Lit brother

19 (A)So show your love for the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

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19 (A)Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, [a]orphan, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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  1. Deuteronomy 27:19 Or fatherless

10 and (A)do not oppress the widow or the [a]orphan, the [b]stranger or the poor; and do (B)not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’

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  1. Zechariah 7:10 Or fatherless
  2. Zechariah 7:10 Or resident alien