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Leviticus 19

Lev. 19:33 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And if a stranger
ger (Hebrew #1616)
from 1481; properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
KJV usage: alien, sojourner, stranger.
Pronounce: gare
Origin: or (fully) geyr (gare)
z sojourn
guwr (Hebrew #1481)
properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather for hostility (as afraid)
KJV usage: abide, assemble, be afraid, dwell, fear, gather (together), inhabitant, remain, sojourn, stand in awe, (be) stranger, X surely.
Pronounce: goor
Origin: a primitive root
with thee in your land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, ye shall not θvex
yanah (Hebrew #3238)
to rage or be violent: by implication, to suppress, to maltreat
KJV usage: destroy, (thrust out by) oppress(-ing, -ion, -or), proud, vex, do violence.
Pronounce: yaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
him.
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Ex. 22:21• 21Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt. (Ex. 22:21)
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or, oppress.

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Hospitality,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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And if.
Ex. 22:21• 21Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt. (Ex. 22:21)
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Ex. 23:9• 9And the stranger thou shalt not oppress; for ye know the spirit of the stranger, for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt. (Ex. 23:9)
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Deut. 10:18‑19• 18who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing.
 19And ye shall love the stranger; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt. (Deut. 10:18‑19)
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Deut. 24:14• 14Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates: (Deut. 24:14)
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Mal. 3:5• 5And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)
vex him.
or, oppress him.
Jer. 7:6• 6if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: (Jer. 7:6)
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Ezek. 22:7,29• 7In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
 29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek. 22:7,29)
• And what strikingly cuts off by anticipation the narrow and base pride of the Talmud, “a stranger” that might sojourn in their land was, not only to be allowed there unmolested, but to be loved as one born among them. “Thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I [am] Jehovah your God” (33, 34). How touching to remember their oppression in Egypt, not for resentment but for compassion! (“Israel Holy to Jehovah: 8. Israel's Holiness” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not molest him.

W. Kelly Translation

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And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.