Leviticus 24:22
New International Version
You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.’”

New Living Translation
“This same standard applies both to native-born Israelites and to the foreigners living among you. I am the LORD your God.”

English Standard Version
You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God.”

Berean Standard Bible
You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’ ”

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the LORD your God.’ ”

New American Standard Bible
There shall be only one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the LORD your God.’”

NASB 1995
‘There shall be one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the LORD your God.’”

NASB 1977
‘There shall be one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the LORD your God.’”

Legacy Standard Bible
There shall be one standard of judgment for you; it shall be for the sojourner as well as the native, for I am Yahweh your God.’”

Amplified Bible
You shall have one standard of law for the stranger among you as well as for the native, for I am the LORD your God.’”

Christian Standard Bible
You are to have the same law for the resident alien and the native, because I am the LORD your God.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are to have the same law for the foreign resident and the native, because I am Yahweh your God.”

American Standard Version
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Jehovah your God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
One judgment shall be for you and for those who are converted to me, and for a son of Israel it shall be so; I AM LORD JEHOVAH your God.’”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
There shall be one judgment for the stranger and the native, for I am the Lord your God.

Contemporary English Version
I am the LORD your God, and I demand equal justice both for you Israelites and for those foreigners who live among you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let there be equal judgment among you, whether he be a stranger, or a native that offends: because I am the Lord your God.

English Revised Version
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for the homeborn: for I am the LORD your God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The same rule applies to every one of you. It makes no difference whether you are a foreigner or an Israelite, because I am the LORD your God."

Good News Translation
This law applies to all of you, to Israelites and to foreigners living among you, because I am the LORD your God."

International Standard Version
You are to have for yourselves consistent procedures in deciding a case. As it is for the resident alien, so it is for the native born. I am the LORD your God."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for the home-born; for I am the LORD your God.'

Literal Standard Version
One judgment is for you; as a sojourner so is a native; for I [am] your God YHWH.”

Majority Standard Bible
You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”

New American Bible
You shall have but one rule, for alien and native-born alike. I, the LORD, am your God.

NET Bible
There will be one regulation for you, whether a foreigner or a native citizen, for I am the LORD your God.'"

New Revised Standard Version
You shall have one law for the alien and for the citizen: for I am the LORD your God.

New Heart English Bible
You shall have one kind of law, for the foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am the LORD your God.'"

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’”

Young's Literal Translation
one judgment is to you; as a sojourner so is a native; for I am Jehovah your God.'

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Context
An Eye for an Eye
21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death. 22You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’” 23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.…

Cross References
Exodus 12:49
The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you."

Leviticus 24:23
Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Numbers 9:14
If 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 15:15
The 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 15:16
The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you."


Treasury of Scripture

You 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.

Leviticus 17:10
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 19:34
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Exodus 12:49
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

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Leviticus 24
1. The oil for the lamps
5. The showbread
10. Shelomith's son blasphemes
13. The law of blasphemy
17. Of murder
18. Of damage
23. The blasphemer is stoned














(22) Ye shall have one manner of law.--Not in the case of blasphemy (see Leviticus 24:16), but in all the instances just adduced, the same penal statutes apply to the non-Israelite and stranger.

Verse 22. - As it had been a stranger who had on this occasion been the offender, the law, Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country, with the sanction, I am the Lord your God, is emphatically repeated (see chapter Leviticus 19:34).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You are to have
יִהְיֶ֣ה (yih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

the same
אֶחָד֙ (’e·ḥāḏ)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

standard of law
מִשְׁפַּ֤ט (miš·paṭ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

for the foreign resident
כַּגֵּ֥ר (kag·gêr)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1616: A guest, a foreigner

and the native;
כָּאֶזְרָ֖ח (kā·’ez·rāḥ)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 249: A spontaneous growth, native

for
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I
אֲנִ֥י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

am the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God.’”
אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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