Leviticus Foreigners and the Poor Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter:Verse)

Quote #7

When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the alien: I am the Lord your God. (NRSV 23:22)

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God. (KJV 23:22)

Clever lawyers who think the vineyard-gleaning rule in Leviticus 19:10 leaves a loophole for keeping all other crops get a smackdown in this verse.

Quote #8

A man whose mother was an Israelite and whose father was an Egyptian came out among the people of Israel; and the Israelite woman's son and a certain Israelite began fighting in the camp. The Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name in a curse. And they brought him to Moses—now his mother's name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. (NRSV 24:10-11)

And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan). (KJV 24:10-11)

By an amazing coincidence, the blasphemer in this story just happens to be the product of a mixed marriage. To quote the immortal words of Giles the Librarian, "the subtext here is rapidly becoming, uh, text."

Quote #9

You shall have one law for the alien and for the citizen: for I am the Lord your God. Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel; and they took the blasphemer outside the camp, and stoned him to death. The people of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses. (NRSV 24:22-23)

Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God. And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses. (KJV 24:22-23)

Don't worry about being treated differently, foreigners who worship other gods. You'll get the same death penalty for blasphemy that applies to his faithful followers.

Um, hooray?