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                  14. Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be
                  of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.
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                  On reading these commandments, one just sheds a tear of bliss at the tender care
            that the God Jehovah teaches an Israelite in regard to behaviour toward… another Is-
            raelite. These so remarkable commandments concern exclusively the Israelites! With
            all the rest, strangers, in other words, the goyim, the “merciful” God Jehovah allows
            an Israelite to do whatever he feels like, if it serves his good and, what is most im-
            portant, brings profit, preferably, super-profit!

                  The Torah continues to determine an Israelite’s conduct toward another Israelite
            and his property:

                  1. Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself
                  from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
                  2. And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou
                  shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother
                  seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
                  3. In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his rai-
                  ment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast
                  found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
                  4. Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide
                  thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
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                  The God Jehovah calls an Israelite to do these good deeds to another Israelite, as

            he is a God of the Israelites. This kind of anxiety in a tribal God about his “children”,
            more precisely — his slaves, is fully understandable, and there would be nothing bad
            here, if it were not for the next “little” but: Everything that the God Jehovah forbids
            an Israelite to do toward another one, he welcomes toward all others, that is the goy-
            im! Moreover, he does not just welcome, but also gives quite clear instructions to his
            faithful Israelite slaves what they must do in order to seize and enslave other coun-
            tries and people; and that the first thing that the Israelites must do is to penetrate the
            higher echelons of power of the people amongst whom they live:
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                  22. Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles,

                  and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their
                  arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
                  23. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their grandees thy nursing
                  mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick
                  up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall
                  not be ashamed that wait for me.
                  24. Shall that, captured, be taken from the mighty [Esau], and that, captivated


                  179  The Pentateuch and Haphtarahs, The book of Dvarim, Tetse  XXIV, 10-14, p. 1246-1248.
                  180  The Pentateuch and Haphtarahs, The book of Dvarim, Tetse  XXII, 1-4, p. 1229-1230.

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