So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

who justly treats<n id="1" /> the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

<p class="bodytext">You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites<n id="1" /> or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow&#8217;s garment as security for a loan.

When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure;<n id="1" /> the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time;<n id="1" /> they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

&#8216;Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;

The foreigners<n id="1" /> who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

your infants, your wives, and the<n id="1" /> foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water &#8211;

I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they<n id="1" /> should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens<n id="2" /> and judge fairly,<n id="3" /> whether between one citizen and another<n id="4" /> or a citizen and a resident foreigner.<n id="5" />

You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.<n id="1" />

You must not hate an Edomite, for he is your relative;<n id="1" /> you must not hate an Egyptian, for you lived as a foreigner<n id="2" /> in his land.

You will celebrate all the good things that the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you and your family,<n id="1" /> along with the Levites and the resident foreigners among you.p>

but the seventh day is the Sabbath<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you,<n id="2" /> so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.

You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages<n id="1" /> and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the <sc>Lordsc> your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother&#8217;s milk.<n id="2" />p>

Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the <sc>Lordsc> your God may bless you in all the work you do.p>

You shall rejoice before him<n id="1" /> &#8211; you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages,<n id="2" /> the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you &#8211; in the place where the <sc>Lordsc> chooses to locate his name.

Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there,<n id="1" /> you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the <sc>Lordsc> your God may bless all the work you do.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When you finish tithing all<n id="1" /> your income in the third year (the year of tithing), you must give it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows<n id="2" /> so that they may eat to their satisfaction in your villages.<n id="3" />

Then you shall say before the <sc>Lordsc> your God, &#8220;I have removed the sacred offering<n id="1" /> from my house and given it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows just as you have commanded me.<n id="2" /> I have not violated or forgotten your commandments.