Deuteronomy 10:19
 Deuteronomy 10:19 
New International Version (©2011)
And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So you, too, must show love to foreigners, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"So show your love for the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You also must love the foreigner, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"You are to love the foreigner, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

NET Bible (©2006)
So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So you should love foreigners, because you were foreigners living in Egypt.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

American King James Version
Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

American Standard Version
Love ye therefore the sojourner; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Darby Bible Translation
And ye shall love the stranger; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.

English Revised Version
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers 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
Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Young's Literal Translation
'And ye have loved the sojourner, for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:12-22 We are here taught our duty to God in our principles and our practices. We must fear the Lord our God. We must love him, and delight in communion with him. We must walk in the ways in which he has appointed us to walk. We must serve him with all our heart and soul. What we do in his service we must do cheerfully, and with good will. We must keep his commandments. There is true honour and pleasure in obedience. We must give honour to God; and to him we must cleave, as one we love and delight in, trust in, and from whom we have great expectations. We are here taught our duty to our neighbour. God's common gifts to mankind oblige us to honour all men. And those who have themselves been in distress, and have found mercy with God, should be ready to show kindness to those who are in the like distress. We are here taught our duty to ourselves. Circumcise your hearts. Cast away all corrupt affections and inclinations, which hinder you from fearing and loving God. By nature we do not love God. This is original sin, the source whence our wickedness proceeds; and the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be; so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God, Ro 8:5-9. Let us, without delay or reserve, come and cleave to our reconciled God in Jesus Christ, that we may love, serve, and obey him acceptably, and be daily changed into his image, from glory to glory, by the Spirit of the Lord. Consider the greatness and glory of God; and his goodness and grace; these persuade us to our duty. Blessed Spirit! Oh for thy purifying, persevering, and renewing influences, that being called out of the state of strangers, such as our fathers were, we may be found among the number of the children of God, and that our lot may be among the saints.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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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A Call to Obedience
18He does execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 19Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20You shall fear the LORD your God; him shall you serve, and to him shall you hold, and swear by his name. …

Exodus 22:21 "Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
Leviticus 19:34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 23:7 Do not despise an Edomite, for the Edomites are related to you. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.
Ezekiel 47:22 You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners residing among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
Ezekiel 47:23 In whatever tribe a foreigner resides, there you are to give them their inheritance," declares the Sovereign LORD.