Final Rules of Humanity and Justice. Resident aliens are to be respected; fraud is to be banished. For the stranger, cf. Leviticus 17:8 f.*. Straightforward dealing is here placed in a position of special importance. It is uniformly emphasized by the prophets (Amos 5:24; Micah 6:8; Ezekiel 45:9 ff.). In early stages of society, untested and unstandardised weights and measures make dishonesty easy. The weights unearthed in the soil of Palestine (e.g. at Gezer) make no pretence to exactness. The isolated fragment in Numbers 15:37-41 * (provision of fringes on garments) seems to belong, in style and matter, to H, and would best be inserted after Leviticus 19:31.
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Leviticus 19:33-36
33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vexd him.
34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
36 Just balances, just weights,e a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.