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You shall have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Yahweh your God.
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One Law for All
Commentators emphasize that this verse establishes a radical principle of equal justice. The same laws for major offenses like blasphemy and murder applied equally to native Israelites and the foreigners living among them. John Calvin notes this demonstrates God's care for the entire human race, as all are created in His image, preventing Israel from acting with arrogance toward outsiders.
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Anglican
You shall have one manner of law. —Not in the case of blasphemy (), but in all the instances just adduced, the same penal…
16th Century
Protestant
You shall have one manner of law. So that the people of Israel, with their usual arrogance, might not suppose that only the descendants of…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You shall have one manner of law Respecting the above things, blaspheming of the name of God, taking away the life o…
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Presbyterian
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father and an Israelite mother. The mention of his parents shows the common harmful effect of mixed marria…