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Leviticus 24:22 — "same rule for sojourner and native" does not require Gentile Torah-observance; it is case law about judicial fairness in civil punishments

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Q&A: questioner asks about Leviticus 24:22 and Zechariah 14:16 as texts allegedly requiring Gentiles to keep OT law.

Mike reads Leviticus 24:17-22 in context and argues the passage is civil/criminal case law about how violent crimes (murder, injury, property damage) are to be handled equally for both native Israelites and sojourners living among them. It is about legal fairness in judicial punishments, not a universal command for Gentiles to observe Torah. It prevents Israelites from applying harsher or more lenient punishments based on ethnic status. Mike uses the analogy of civil traffic and fraud laws.

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