Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Love ye therefore the sojourner; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

'And ye have loved the sojourner, for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt.

So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.

Therefore, you also should love sojourners, for you also were new arrivals in the land of Egypt.

Diligite igitur peregrinum, quia peregrini fuistis in terra, AEgypti.

Love ye therefore the stranger,.... Because the Lord loves him; and another reason follows, particularly binding on the Israelites:
for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt; and therefore should sympathize with such, and show them compassion, relieve them in distress, and afford them whatever they want, and is in the power of their hands to communicate to them; remembering their own condition in Egypt, and how welcome such a treatment would have been to them then, as well as the kind and careful providence of God towards them at that time.