KINDNESS FOR THE POOR

Kindness for Poor Brothers. ‘Now if your fellow countryman becomes poor and his hand falters with you [that is, he has trouble repaying you for something], then you are to help and sustain him, [with courtesy and consideration] like [you would] a stranger or a temporary resident [without property], so that he may live among you.

THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

The feast of tabernacles. “Say to the children of Israel, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, and for seven days, is the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles) to the LORD.
The first day is a holy convocation (calling together); you shall not do any laborious work [on that day].

THE ANGEL LEADER AND THE HUMAN INTERCESSOR

The angel leader and the human intercessor. I will send an Angel before you and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

LAWS OF CONDUCT AND WORSHIP

ou shall not follow a crowd to do [something] evil, nor shall you testify at a trial or in a dispute so as to side with a crowd in order to pervert justice; nor shall you favor or be partial to a poor man in his dispute [simply because he is poor].

MOSES TELLS JETHRO OF GODS GOODNESS

Moses told his father-in-law about all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and about all the hardship that had happened during the journey, and how the LORD had rescued them.