Exodus 22
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The Cloak Back by Sundown

Restitution law, then a run of rules with no penalty attached to them at all. Whoever drafted this chapter kept escalating the reasons: do not wrong the stranger, because you were strangers; do not afflict the widow or the orphan, or their cry will be heard; do not keep a poor man’s cloak overnight, because it is all he has to sleep in, and when he cries out, “I will hear; for I am gracious.” That last rule was still being invoked six centuries later — a field worker near the Judean coast wrote out a complaint about a confiscated garment on a potsherd, and the sherd was dug up in 1960.

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