Leviticus 24:22

Complete Jewish Bible

You are to apply the same standard of judgment to the foreigner as to the citizen, because I am Adonai your God."

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall have one kind of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am the LORD your God.

King James Version
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.

Lexham English Bible
You must have one norm; as for the alien, so it must be for the native, because I am Yahweh your God.'"

New Century Version
"‘The law will be the same for the foreigner as for those from your own country. I am the Lord your God.'"

New English Translation
There will be one regulation for you, whether a foreigner or a native citizen, for I am the Lord your God.'"

Amplified Bible
'You shall have one standard of law for the stranger among you as well as for the native, for I am the LORD your God.'"

New American Standard Bible
'There shall be only one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the LORD your God.'"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shall haue one lawe: it shalbe aswel for the stranger as for one borne in the countrey: for I am the Lorde your God.

Legacy Standard Bible
There shall be one standard of judgment for you; it shall be for the sojourner as well as the native, for I am Yahweh your God.'"

Contemporary English Version
I am the Lord your God, and I demand equal justice both for you Israelites and for those foreigners who live among you.

Darby Translation
Ye shall have one law: as the stranger, so the home-born; for I am Jehovah your God.

Easy-to-Read Version
"The law will be the same for foreigners and for people from your own country. This is because I am the Lord your God."

English Standard Version
You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the Lord your God."

George Lamsa Translation
You shall have one manner of justice; as for a proselyte, so for an Israelite; for I am the LORD your God.

Good News Translation
This law applies to all of you, to Israelites and to foreigners living among you, because I am the Lord your God."

Christian Standard Bible®
You are to have the same law for the resident alien and the native, because I am the Lord your God.”

Literal Translation
One judgment shall be for you whether an alien or a native; for I am Jehovah your God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There shal be one maner of lawe amonge you, to ye straunger as to one of youre selues: for I am the LORDE youre God.

American Standard Version
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Jehovah your God.

Bible in Basic English
You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall haue one maner of lawe, euen for the straunger as well as for one of your owne countrey: for I am the Lorde your God.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for the home-born; for I am the LORD your God.'

King James Version (1611)
Ye shall haue one maner of law, aswell for the stranger, as for one of your owne countrey: for I am the Lord your God.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There shall be one judgment for the stranger and the native, for I am the Lord your God.

English Revised Version
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for the homeborn: for I am the LORD your God.

Berean Standard Bible
You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.'"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Euene doom be among you, whether a pilgrym ethir a citeseyn synneth, for Y am youre Lord God.

Young's Literal Translation
one judgment is to you; as a sojourner so is a native; for I [am] Jehovah your God.'

Update Bible Version
You shall have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Yahweh your God.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I [am] the LORD your God.

World English Bible
You shall have one kind of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Yahweh your God.

New King James Version
You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the LORD your God."'

New Living Translation
"This same standard applies both to native-born Israelites and to the foreigners living among you. I am the Lord your God."

New Life Bible
You will have the same Law for the stranger and for the one born among you. For I am the Lord your God.'"

New Revised Standard
You shall have one law for the alien and for the citizen: for I am the Lord your God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
One rule, shall ye have, as the sojourner, so the home-born, shall be, - For, I - Yahweh, am your God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let there be equal judgment among you, whether he be a stranger, or a native that offends: because I am the Lord your God.

Revised Standard Version
You shall have one law for the sojourner and for the native; for I am the LORD your God."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'There shall be one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the LORD your God.'"

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ There was a man who was the son of a woman of Isra'el and an Egyptian father. He went out among the people of Isra'el, and this son of a woman of Isra'el had a fight in the camp with a man of Isra'el, ¹¹ in the course of which the son of the woman of Isra'el uttered the Name [Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh] in a curse. So they brought him to Moshe. (His mother's name was Shlomit the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.) ¹² They put him under guard until Adonai would tell them what to do. ¹³ Adonai said to Moshe, ¹⁴ "Take the man who cursed outside the camp, have everyone who heard him lay their hands on his head, and have the entire community stone him. ¹⁵ Then tell the people of Isra'el, ‘Whoever curses his God will bear the consequences of his sin; ¹⁶ and whoever blasphemes the name of Adonai must be put to death; the entire community must stone him. The foreigner as well as the citizen is to be put to death if he blasphemes the Name. ¹⁷ "‘Anyone who strikes another person and kills him must be put to death. ¹⁸ Anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution, life for life. ¹⁹ If someone injures his neighbor, what he did is to be done to him —

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 17:10, Leviticus 19:34, Exodus 12:49, Numbers 9:14, Numbers 15:15, Numbers 15:16, Numbers 15:29

Reciprocal: Numbers 35:15 - General Deuteronomy 1:16 - the stranger Joshua 8:33 - stranger Ezekiel 14:7 - of the stranger

Cross-References

Genesis 24:2
Avraham said to the servant who had served him the longest, who was in charge of all he owned, "Put your hand under my thigh;

Genesis 24:3
because I want you to swear by Adonai , God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from among the women of the Kena‘ani, among whom I am living;

Genesis 24:9
The servant put his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning the matter.

Genesis 24:10
(iii) Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and all kinds of gifts from his master, got up and went to Aram-Naharayim, to Nachor's city.

Genesis 24:11
Toward evening, when the women go out to draw water, he had the camels kneel down outside the city by the well.

Genesis 24:12
He said, " Adonai , God of my master Avraham, please let me succeed today; and show your grace to my master Avraham.

Genesis 24:15
Before he had finished speaking, Rivkah the daughter of B'tu'el son of Milkah the wife of Nachor Avraham's brother, came out with her jug on her shoulder.

Genesis 24:16
The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, never having had sexual relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jug and came up.

Genesis 24:19
When she was through letting him drink, she said, "I will also draw water for your camels until they have drunk their fill."

Genesis 24:23
and asked, "Whose daughter are you? Tell me, please. Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall have one manner of law,.... Respecting the above things, blaspheming of the name of God, taking away the life of man, or of any beast, and of doing damage to either:

as well for the stranger as for one of your own country; the above laws were binding upon proselytes as well as Israelites, and proselytes of the gate as well as proselytes of righteousness, though the Jews commonly restrain it to the latter:

for I [am] the Lord your God; whose name is holy and reverend, and ought not to be blasphemed; and who is the Maker and preserver of man and beast, and made these laws respecting them, and expected they should be obeyed, especially by the children of Israel, whose covenant God and Father he was, and they under the greatest obligation to serve and obey him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 24:22. Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger as for one of your own country — Equal laws, where each individual receives the same protection and the same privileges, are the boast only of a sound political constitution. He who respects and obeys the laws has a right to protection and support, and his person and property are as sacred in the sight of justice as the person and property of the prince. He who does not obey the laws of his country forfeits all right and title to protection and privilege; his own actions condemn him, and justice takes him up on the evidence of his own transgressions. He who does what is right need not fear the power of the civil magistrate, for he holds the sword only to punish transgressors. Universal obedience to the laws is the duty of every citizen; none can do more, none should do less: therefore each individual in a well regulated state must have equal rights and privileges in every thing that relates to the safety of his person, and the security of his property. Reader, such was the Mosaic code; such IS the BRITISH CONSTITUTION.