◄ Leviticus 19:34 ►
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Good News Translation
Treat them as you would an Israelite, and love them as you love yourselves. Remember that you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

New Revised Standard Version
The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Contemporary English Version
Instead, treat them as well as you treat your own people and love them as much as you love yourself. Remember, you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

New American Bible
You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt. I, the LORD, am your God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But let him be among you as one of the same country. And you shall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But let him be among you as one of the same country. And you shall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:18 Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.

Exodus 12:48,49 And if any stranger be willing to dwell among you, and to keep the Phase of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised, and then shall he celebrate it according to the manner: and he shall be as he that is born in the land: but if any man be uncircumcised, he shall not eat thereof. . . .

Deuteronomy 10:19 And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Matthew 5:43 You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thy enemy.

Context
Keep My Decrees
…33If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not upbraid hin: 34But let him be among you as one of the same country. And you shall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.35Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:21
Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:18
Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.

Numbers 10:32
And if thou comest with us, we will give thee what is the best of the riches which the Lord shall deliver to us.

Deuteronomy 10:19
And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 23:7
Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

Psalm 146:9
The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

Leviticus 19:33
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