Later text
When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him. You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Intertextuality Pair
Leviticus 19:33-34 → Exodus 12:48
Allusion
Earlier text
Exodus 12:48BSB
If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD's Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
Significance
Exodus 12:48 declares that a circumcised foreigner (גֵּר, ger) participating in Passover "shall be like a native of the land" (כְּאֶזְרַח הָאָרֶץ, ke'ezrach ha'arets), and Leviticus 19:33-34 develops this principle into a comprehensive ethical command: "You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself." Both texts ground the obligation in Israel's own experience of alienation: "for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt." The progression from Passover inclusion to daily ethical obligation shows that ritual participation in God's redemptive acts creates binding social responsibilities—Israel must extend to others the same grace they received.
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- Allusion
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