KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Leviticus 19:33–37
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Leviticus 19:33
33¶ And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
33¶ And *if a stranger soiourne with thee in your land, yee shall not ‖vexe him.
- Or, oppresse.
- Exod. 22.21.
Leviticus 19:34
34But 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.
34* But the stranger that dwelleth with you, shalbe as one borne amongst you, and thou shalt loue him as thy selfe, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
- Exod. 22.21.
Leviticus 19:35
35¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
35¶ Ye shall doe no vnrighteousnes in iudgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Leviticus 19:36
36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
36*Iust ballances, iust †weights, a iust Ephah, and a iust Hin shall ye haue: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Heb. stones.
- Prou. 11.1. and 16.11. and 20.10.
Leviticus 19:37
37Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.
37Therefore shall ye obserue all my Statutes, and all my Iudgements, and doe them: I am the LORD.
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DEFINED WORDS
Leviticus 19:33
To dwell temporarily as a stranger or traveler; as a noun, a temporary residence.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To harass, torment.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
DEFINED WORDS
Leviticus 19:34
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Affection, goodwill, devoted regard, or charity; as a verb, to regard with such affection or goodwill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Leviticus 19:35
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
unrighteousness
Injustice, wickedness, or conduct contrary to divine law and the principles of justice and equity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A measuring-rod.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Heaviness or a measured load; figuratively, a burden, importance, influence, force, or consequence.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A standard or instrument for determining amount or size; an amount so determined; also to determine, allot, or proportion.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Leviticus 19:36
In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Instruments for weighing; pairs of scales used to determine weight or equality.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Measures or objects used to determine heaviness; also the standards by which things are weighed.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A Hebrew liquid measure used for offerings; the exact modern equivalent is not asserted here.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Leviticus 19:37
To watch, heed, keep, perform, or treat with due regard.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
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From verse 33
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Open the full verse study21¶ Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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Open the full verse study9¶ Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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Open the full verse study14¶ Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
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Open the full verse study6If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
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Open the full verse study5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
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Open the full verse study18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
19Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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Open the full verse study29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
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Open the full verse study7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
From verse 34
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Open the full verse study19Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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Open the full verse study18¶ Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.
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Open the full verse study48And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
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Open the full verse study43¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
From verse 35
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Open the full verse study13¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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Open the full verse study15But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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Open the full verse study12In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
13¶ Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
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Open the full verse study15¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
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Open the full verse study2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
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Open the full verse study1HEAR ye now what the Lord saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
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Open the full verse study1A FALSE balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
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Open the full verse study11A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Open the full verse study10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
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Open the full verse study5Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
From verse 36
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Open the full verse study2I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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Open the full verse study1A FALSE balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
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Open the full verse study13¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
14Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
15But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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Open the full verse study10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
From verse 37
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Open the full verse study1ALL the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.
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Open the full verse study4Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.
5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
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Open the full verse study22And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
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Open the full verse study1AND Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
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Open the full verse study34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
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Open the full verse study1NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.
2Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
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Open the full verse study5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
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Open the full verse study1NOW these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
2That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
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Open the full verse study4Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
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