Leviticus 24:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’””
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“You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Jehovah your God.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“one judgment is to you; as a sojourner so is a native; for I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 24:22 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 12:49The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
- Leviticus 17:10If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 1:16At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).