…equal to the amount of the debt he owed. But even that practice was prohibited in scripture for certain more vulnerable populations. For example,Deuteronomy 24, verse 17says, you shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner, a foreigner that doesn't have legal rights within the country, or to the fatherless,…
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