The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen

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Levytype Company, 1895 - Jews - 576 pages
 

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Page 496 - And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great : ye shall not be afraid of the face of man ; for the judgment is God's : and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Page 498 - Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.
Page 497 - If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Page 427 - There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Page 497 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 498 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ? thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger : I am the LORD your God.
Page 427 - Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage ; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Page 501 - We drive them to mean occupations, and then reproach them for not embracing honorable professions. We long forbade them to possess land ; and we complain that they chiefly occupy themselves in trade. We shut them out from all the paths of ambition ; and then we despise them for taking refuge in avarice. During many ages we have, in all our dealings with them, abused our immense superiority of force ; and then we are disgusted because they have recourse to that cunning which is the natural and universal...
Page 57 - It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, for, happily, the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance...
Page 496 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

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