“And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.”
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him' -- the command to judge 'righteously' (tsedeq) grounds jurisprudence in justice as a moral absolute. The inclusion of 'aliens' shows that God's justice transcends ethnic boundaries; righteousness applies equally to the foreigner. Moses' charge makes judges not autocrats but servants of divine justice.
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