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Numbers 15:16

The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for those from other lands living with you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Vows;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   Law;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Offerings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Proselyte;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Offerings and Sacrifices;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kadesh Barnea;   Numbers, the Book of;   Wilderness of the Wanderings;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Unity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Sacrifice and Offering;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - First-Fruit ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Stranger;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - One;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aliens;   Conflict of Laws;   Gentile;   Meal-Offering;   Priestly Code;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who sojourns with you.
King James Version
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
Lexham English Bible
There will be one law and one stipulation for you and for the alien dwelling among you.'"
New Century Version
The teachings and rules are the same for you and for the foreigners among you.'"
New English Translation
One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.'"
Amplified Bible
'There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the stranger who lives with you as a resident alien.'"
New American Standard Bible
'There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the stranger who resides with you.'"
Geneva Bible (1587)
One Lawe and one maner shall serue both for you and for the stranger that soiourneth with you.
Legacy Standard Bible
There shall be one law and one judgment for you and for the sojourner who sojourns with you.'"
Complete Jewish Bible
The same Torah and standard of judgment will apply to both you and the foreigner living with you.'"
Darby Translation
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
Easy-to-Read Version
This means that you must follow the same laws and the same rules. These laws and rules are for you Israelites and for the other people who are living among you."
English Standard Version
One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."
George Lamsa Translation
One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the proselyte who sojourns with you.
Good News Translation
the same laws and regulations apply to you and to them.
Christian Standard Bible®
The same law and the same ordinance will apply to both you and the alien who resides with you.”
Literal Translation
There shall be one law and one ordinance both for you and for the alien that lives with you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
One lawe, and one ordinaunce shalbe vnto you and to the straunger that dwelleth with you.
American Standard Version
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
One lawe and one maner shall serue, both for you, and for the straunger that soiourneth with you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
One law and one ordinance shall be both for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
King James Version (1611)
One law, and one maner shall be for you, and for the stranger that soiourneth with you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There shall be one law and one ordinance for you, and for the stranger that abides among you.
English Revised Version
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
Berean Standard Bible
The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and the foreigner residing with you."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises,
Young's Literal Translation
one law and one ordinance is to you and to the sojourner who is sojourning with you.'
Update Bible Version
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourns with you.
Webster's Bible Translation
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
World English Bible
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who sojourns with you.
New King James Version
One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you.' " Exodus 12:49">[fn]
New Living Translation
The same instructions and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigners living among you."
New Life Bible
One Law will be for you and for the stranger who stays with you.'"
New Revised Standard
You and the alien who resides with you shall have the same law and the same ordinance.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
one law and one regulation, shall there be for yourselves and for the sojourner that sojourneth with you.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Revised Standard Version
One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns with you.'"

Contextual Overview

1 And the Lord said to Moses, 2 Say to the children of Israel, When you have come into the land which I am giving to you for your resting-place, 3 And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an offering for a sweet smell to the Lord, from the herd or the flock: 4 Then let him who is making his offering, give to the Lord a meal offering of a tenth part of a measure of the best meal mixed with a fourth part of a hin of oil: 5 And for the drink offering, you are to give with the burned offering or other offering, the fourth part of a hin of wine for every lamb. 6 Or for a male sheep, give as a meal offering two tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with a third part of a hin of oil: 7 And for the drink offering give a third part of a hin of wine, for a sweet smell to the Lord. 8 And when you make ready a young ox for a burned or other offering, or for the effecting of an oath, or for peace-offerings to the Lord: 9 Then with the ox give a meal offering of three tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with half a hin of oil. 10 And for the drink offering: give half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:48 - a stranger Exodus 12:49 - General Leviticus 4:27 - common people Leviticus 24:22 - General Numbers 19:10 - it shall be Numbers 35:15 - General Joshua 8:33 - stranger

Cross-References

Genesis 15:5
And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
Genesis 15:8
And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?
Genesis 15:9
And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.
Genesis 15:11
And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away.
Exodus 12:40
Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.
1 Kings 21:26
He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.)
Daniel 8:23
And in the later years of their kingdom, when their evil doings have become complete, there will come up a king full of pride and expert in dark sayings.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

One law, and one manner,.... One law respecting these sacrifices, and one manner of offering them; one and the same precept to be observed, and one and the same judgment or punishment inflicted in case of non-observance:

shall be for you, and the stranger that sojourneth with you; for Israelites and proselytes; which is said to invite and encourage the latter, and may have a distant view to the calling of the Gentiles in Gospel times, when there should be no difference between Jews and Gentiles called by grace in matters of religion, but would be one in Christ, Galatians 3:28.


 
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