Numbers 15:16

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.””

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BSBPD

“The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“one law and one ordinance is to you and to the sojourner who is sojourning with you.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 15:16 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 12:49The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
  2. Leviticus 4:27And if one of the common people sins unintentionally and does what is prohibited by any of the LORD’s commandments, he incurs guilt.
  3. 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.
  4. Joshua 8:33All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded earlier, to bless the people of Israel.
  5. 1 Kings 8:41And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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