Leviticus 24:22

22 You are to apply the same standard of judgment to the foreigner as to the citizen, because I am ADONAI your God."

Leviticus 24:22 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 24:22

Ye shall have one manner of law
Respecting the above things, blaspheming of the name of God, taking away the life of man, or of any beast, and of doing damage to either:

as well for the stranger as for one of your own country;
the above laws were binding upon proselytes as well as Israelites, and proselytes of the gate as well as proselytes of righteousness, though the Jews commonly restrain it to the latter:

for I [am] the Lord your God;
whose name is holy and reverend, and ought not to be blasphemed; and who is the Maker and preserver of man and beast, and made these laws respecting them, and expected they should be obeyed, especially by the children of Israel, whose covenant God and Father he was, and they under the greatest obligation to serve and obey him.

Leviticus 24:22 In-Context

20 break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth -whatever injury he has caused the other person is to be rendered to him in return.
21 He who kills an animal is to make restitution, but he who kills another person is to be put to death.
22 You are to apply the same standard of judgment to the foreigner as to the citizen, because I am ADONAI your God."
23 So Moshe spoke to the people of Isra'el, and they took the man who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him to death. Thus the people of Isra'el did as ADONAI had ordered Moshe. see readings for Parashah 41]
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