Exodus 22:21

Modern English Version

You must neither wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Cross References

Job 6:27

Yes, you cast lots for the fatherless, and you bargain over your friend.

Psalm 146:9

The Lord watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

Exodus 20:2

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Exodus 23:9

Also you shall not oppress a foreigner, for you know the life of a foreigner, seeing you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed; judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong or violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your harm,

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have treated father and mother with contempt. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Leviticus 19:13

You shall not defraud your neighbor or rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you all night until the morning.

Leviticus 19:33

When a foreigner sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

Leviticus 19:34

The foreigner who dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:35

If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, then you shall support him as if he were a foreigner or a sojourner, so that he may live with you.

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow, orphan, sojourner, or poor. And let none of you contemplate evil deeds in your hearts against his brother.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

Deuteronomy 1:16

I charged your judges at that time, saying, “Hear the issues between your countrymen, and judge righteously between every man and his fellow countryman, and the foreigner that is with him.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He executes the judgment of the orphan and the widow and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 10:19

Therefore, love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 15:15

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you. Therefore, I command this to you today.

Deuteronomy 23:16

He is to dwell with you, even among you, in a place which he shall choose in one of your towns, where he prefers. You must not oppress him.

Deuteronomy 23:7

You are not to abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a foreigner in his land.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You must not pervert the justice of the foreigner or of the fatherless, nor take a widow’s cloak as a pledge.

Deuteronomy 27:19

“Cursed is he who perverts justice for the foreigner, orphan, and widow.” And all the people shall say, “Amen.”