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Bible study · Exodus 22

Exodus 22: For I am gracious

Read Exodus 22 before you meet.

In a few lines

The laws guarding the alien, the widow and the fatherless use the very Hebrew verbs of what Egypt did to Israel, oppress and afflict, and God promises to hear their cry as he heard Israel's. And the Hebrew Bible first uses chanun, "gracious", when God speaks up for a neighbor's garment taken as collateral (22:27); the next time, it's in his own name (34:6).

The verse to carry

“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 22:21

To talk about

  1. 1. Israel was told to treat the foreigner well because they had been foreigners in Egypt. How does remembering where you've been change the way you treat people who are new or on the edges?

  2. 2. In this chapter a thief doesn't just give back what he took; he pays back more. When you've wronged someone, what has making it right looked like, or what would it look like now?

  3. 3. God tells Israel to give a neighbor's garment taken as collateral back before sundown, "for I am gracious" (22:27). Who around you might be going without something basic this week, and what could you do before the day is out?

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