OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 22:21

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

21

“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 21. Were strangers. The Celtes punished with death the murderer of a stranger, which they only banished him who murdered a citizen. Calmet.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter