Here is where Yahweh, a God of mercy and justice, lays down rules of law and morality to guide His people. This is a good, noble deity that seeks to compel His people to embrace spiritual and moral goodness.
He protects the alien, no enemy, no stranger for Yahweh, so unlike how strangers are treated elsewhere in the ancient world. Chapter 22, Verse 20: You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.
Yahweh believes in social justice: Chapter 22, Verse 21: You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. . .
I would recommend that there should be social justice but it is best achieved notthrough government expansion and coercive social services, and altruistic causes, so much as a natural, effective byproduct of the morality of enlightened self-interest, voluntary giving and sharing, and the tendency of capitalism to lift all boats, the only material and monetary redistribution plan in the world that actually works.
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