you yourselves were aliens in Egypt” (10:12–22, italics added). This command that calls God’s covenant people to love the less fortunate and aliens even as God had loved them is the Old Testament equivalent of Jesus’s New Testament command, “As I have loved you, so you must love one another” (John 13:34). • “Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his laws and his commands always.… So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today to love the LORD your God and to serve him with
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