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Weekly Social Justice Torah Commentary
February 18, 2012 PDF/print MP3/podcast
Mishpatim

Parshat Mishpatim includes the first two appearances of the commandment not to oppress the stranger, an injunction that occurs 36 times in the Torah.

Exodus 22:20 and 23:9

(20) You shall not wrong or oppress a stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
(9) You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the soul of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.


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