What is the context?
Honoring the aged is joined to fearing God. The foreigner living among Israel must not be mistreated but is to be treated as a native and loved as oneself. Israel’s own experience as foreigners in Egypt is given as the reason.
Honest judgment, measures, weights, and quantities close the chapter. The God who brought Israel out of Egypt requires integrity even in an ordinary sale. Remembering deliverance is meant to shape how the community treats people with less security and how it conducts business.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley emphasizes honoring the aged, love for the foreigner, and honest measures. The USCCB notes connect these duties with the chapter’s wider call to holiness. The command to love the resident foreigner is explicit; a complete answer to a particular modern immigration law would require further reasoning that this paragraph itself does not supply.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
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