“Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?”
The fast continues by sharing bread with the hungry, bringing homeless poor into one's house, and clothing the naked—a concrete catalog of mercy that translates into bodily care. The progression from macro-justice (breaking chains) to micro-mercy (feeding individuals) establishes comprehensive justice spanning structures and direct service. The imperative not to hide from kinship with the poor requires proximity and relationship, not distant charity. This verse's specificity—bread, house, clothing—grounds religious discipline in the material and embodied, refusing abstraction or spiritualization.
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