21Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-24)Here is, I. A law that he who debauched a young woman should be obliged to marry her, Exod. 22:16 , 17 . If she was betrothed to another, it was death to debauch her ( Deut. 22:23 , 24 ); but the law here mentioned respects her as single. But, if the father refused her to him, he was to give satisfaction in money for the injury and disgrace he had done her. This law puts an honour upon marriage an…
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