Thematic Bible: Mosaic law relating to
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Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Injustice to
I commanded your judges at that time: Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge rightly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
This is what the Lord says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Don’t exploit or brutalize the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
Such people are to observe it in the second month, on the fourteenth day at twilight. They are to eat the animal with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
The same law will apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
You are to have the same law for the foreign resident and the native, because I am Yahweh your God.”
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Oppression of
“Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town in your land.
Do not deny justice to a foreigner or fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s garment as security.
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
This is what the Lord says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Don’t exploit or brutalize the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Their eating things offered in sacrifice
Neither you nor a foreigner are to present food to your God from any of these animals. They will not be accepted for you because they are deformed and have a defect.”
If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family, she is not to eat from the holy contributions.
“No one outside a priest’s family is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired hand is not to eat the holy offering.
They must eat those things by which atonement was made at the time of their ordination and consecration. An unauthorized person must not eat them, for these things are holy.
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Usury of
You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are entering to possess.
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Their eating the passover meal
If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate; he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner may eat it.
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Authorized bondservice of
Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves. You may also purchase them from the foreigners staying with you, or from their families living among you-those born in your land. These may become your property.
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Sale » Meat » Of animals
“You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a temporary resident living within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Forbid their being made kings over israel
you are to appoint over you the king the Lord your God chooses. Appoint a king from your brothers. You are not to set a foreigner over you, or one who is not of your people.
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Their eating blood
“Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who live among them who eats any blood, I will turn against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Their blaspheming
Whoever blasphemes the name of Yahweh is to be put to death; the whole community must stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the foreign resident or the native.
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Their approaching the tabernacle
Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to stop at a campsite, the Levites are to set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near it must be put to death.