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Deuteronomy 10:19

You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aliens;   Hospitality;   Love;   Strangers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Aliens;   Brethren;   Brotherly Love;   Duty;   Love;   Love-Hatred;   Social Duties;   Social Life;   Strangers;   The Topic Concordance - Love;   Strangers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Love to Man;   Strangers in Israel;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Stranger;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Foreigner;   Hospitality;   Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Golden Rule;   Hospitality;   Neighbor;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Alien;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proselytes;   Stranger;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alien;   Brotherly Love;   Hospitality;   Loan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Ethics;   Poverty;   Proselyte;   Stranger;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Proselyte;   Stranger;   Stranger, Alien, Foreigner;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hospitality;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gentiles;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aliens;   Commandments, the 613;   Ethics;   Judaism;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 2;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You are also to love the resident alien, since you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt.
Hebrew Names Version
Love you therefore the sojourner; for you were sojourners in the land of Mitzrayim.
King James Version
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Lexham English Bible
And you shall love the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
English Standard Version
Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
New Century Version
You also must love foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
New English Translation
So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Amplified Bible
"Therefore, show your love for the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
New American Standard Bible
"So show your love for the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Loue ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Legacy Standard Bible
So show love for the sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Contemporary English Version
And you should also care for them, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore you are to love the foreigner, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Darby Translation
And ye shall love the stranger; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.
Easy-to-Read Version
So you must also love them, because you yourselves were strangers in the land of Egypt.
George Lamsa Translation
Love therefore those who turn to him; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Good News Translation
So then, show love for those foreigners, because you were once foreigners in Egypt.
Literal Translation
And you shall love the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore shal ye loue a strauger, for ye youre selues also were straungers in the londe of Egipte.
American Standard Version
Love ye therefore the sojourner; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Bible in Basic English
So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Loue ye therfore the straunger also: for ye were straungers your selues in the lande of Egypt.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Love ye therefore the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
King James Version (1611)
Loue yee therefore the stranger: for yee were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall love the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
English Revised Version
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Berean Standard Bible
So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And therfor `loue ye pilgryms, for also ye weren comelyngis in the lond of Egipt.
Young's Literal Translation
`And ye have loved the sojourner, for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt.
Update Bible Version
Love therefore the sojourner; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Webster's Bible Translation
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
World English Bible
Love you therefore the sojourner; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
New King James Version
Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
New Living Translation
So you, too, must show love to foreigners, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.
New Life Bible
So show your love for the stranger. For you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore shall ye love the sojourner, - for sojourners, became ye in the land of Egypt.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Revised Standard Version
Love the sojourner therefore; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
THE MESSAGE
You must treat foreigners with the same loving care— remember, you were once foreigners in Egypt. Reverently respect God , your God, serve him, hold tight to him, back up your promises with the authority of his name. He's your praise! He's your God! He did all these tremendous, these staggering things that you saw with your own eyes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So show your love for the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Contextual Overview

12 So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments of the Lord your God and his decrees that I am commanding you today, for your own well-being. 14 Although heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord your God, the earth with all that is in it, 15 yet the Lord set his heart in love on your ancestors alone and chose you, their descendants after them, out of all the peoples, as it is today. 16 Circumcise, then, the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer. 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, 18 who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. 19 You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 You shall fear the Lord your God; him alone you shall worship; to him you shall hold fast, and by his name you shall swear. 21 He is your praise; he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things that your own eyes have seen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 22:21, Leviticus 19:33, Leviticus 19:34, Luke 6:35, Luke 10:28-37, Luke 17:18, Galatians 6:10, James 2:15, James 2:16, 1 John 3:17, 1 John 3:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:13 - thy Exodus 23:9 - thou shalt not Leviticus 25:35 - a stranger Deuteronomy 1:16 - the stranger Deuteronomy 23:7 - because thou Psalms 146:9 - preserveth Zechariah 7:9 - saying Hebrews 13:2 - not

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; children were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 10:2
The descendants of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:7
The descendants of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10:8
Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to become a mighty warrior.
Genesis 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10:15
Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
Genesis 10:17
the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
Genesis 10:18
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
Genesis 10:21
To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.
Genesis 10:24
Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Love ye therefore the stranger,.... Because the Lord loves him; and another reason follows, particularly binding on the Israelites:

for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt; and therefore should sympathize with such, and show them compassion, relieve them in distress, and afford them whatever they want, and is in the power of their hands to communicate to them; remembering their own condition in Egypt, and how welcome such a treatment would have been to them then, as well as the kind and careful providence of God towards them at that time.


 
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