Thematic Bible: Injustice to


Thematic Bible



“Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen, and judge righteously between a man and his fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him.

Thus says the Lord, “Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you.”

There shall be one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the Lord your God.’”