All men descend from Adam, so all are equally human. Moreover, the Bible insists that foreigners be given equal protection under the law. Exod. 12:49 says, “There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you" (ESV; see also Lev. 24:22). Laws protecting the stranger and guaranteeing him equal justice include Exod. 20:10; 22:21; 23:9; Lev. 19:32-33 (“You shall love him as yourself ”); Deut. 10:19; 14:29; 23:7; 24:14-22; 26:11-13. The kindness that Israel was required to show to strangers was, as we saw in Chapter 3, part of her missionary task; but it was also a
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