Leviticus 17:13

of the children of Israel The Samaritan text and certain of Kennicott's Heb. MSS. read -house" here, as in Leviticus 17:3; Leviticus 17:5; Leviticus 17:10. The LXX. (see above) have -sons" in all four places, but the Vulg. follows MT.

the strangers that sojourn among them Foreigners are here made to be subject to the same law in the matter as the home born. On the other hand, in Deut. (Deuteronomy 14:21) that which dieth of itself may be given to -the stranger" or sold to -a foreigner." According to Dillm. the contradiction arises from a difference in standpoint, the direction in Deut. basing itself on real and practical life, while that of P has in mind an ideal theocracy. More probably, the greater strictness of P is the product of a time (later than Deut.) when emphasis was laid on the binding character of Israel's laws upon the resident of foreign extraction, who desired to share the advantages afforded him. So Driver.