When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner protection regulation echoes Exodus 22:21 and 23:9: the foreigner residing among Israel must not be mistreated. The mistreatment prohibition applied to the foreigner is the negative form of what the positive command of verse 34 will state. The covenant community that received God's care when it was foreign in Egypt must extend that same care to those who are foreign among them.

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