Exodus 12:49

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.””

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BSBPD

“The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“One law shall be to him that is home-born, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“one law is to a native, and to a sojourner who is sojourning in your midst.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 12:49 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 19:34You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
  2. Leviticus 24:22You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
  3. Numbers 9:14If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”
  4. Numbers 15:15The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.
  5. Numbers 15:16The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”
  6. Numbers 15:29You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.
  7. Numbers 35:15These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
  8. Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  9. Colossians 3:11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

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