Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Kindness Linked to Deliverance from Egypt

"The Psalmist tells us why God delivered Israel from Egypt: 
He brought forth His people with joy, 
and His chosen with gladness: 
and gave them the lands of the heathen: 
and they inherited the labor of the people; 
--that they might observe His statutes, 
--and keep His laws."  
Psalm 105:43-45
 
 
Thus in Deuteronomy 24:17, 18 the fact of
their deliverance from Egypt is cited as placing them under special obligation to show kindness to the widow and the fatherless
: "
thou shalt not pervert the judgment ofthe stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing."
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