At the start of this week’s Torah reading, Sh’mot (Exodus 1:1-6:1), there are 70 Israelites living in comfort in Egypt; at its end, they number multitudes, but in slavery. Pharaoh has decreed the drowning in the Nile of every male Israelite newborn, but one such baby is pulled out of the water and survives:
When Moses [...]
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"Wash you, make you clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes, cease to do evil...learn to do well...seek judgement...relieve the oppressed...judge the fatherless...plead for the widow"
"..Do not steal from the
poor, for they are oppressed, nor should you oppress the
downtrodden.."
"..Thou shalt neither vex
a stranger, nor oppress him..If thou at all afflict them, &
they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry.."
"..Woe to them that devise
iniquity..taking them by violence; & houses, & take them
away: so they oppress a man & his house, even a man & his
heritage.."