Someone recently made this post in a group regarding the sojourner and their supposed differences to the Children of Israel. You can see their post in the image below.
Why is this a problem? Here is what we posted concerning this statement.
"It seems to be a provision for someone coming into the community who is likely economically destitute or in a poorer situation. Giving them free meat, a luxury, is showing them kindness and charity, hence why it says right after this, "don't boil a kid in its mother's milk." This is a concern for taking care of life and creation.
Also, Leviticus 17:15 — And every person who eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.
Eating the animal didn't mean an Israelite was in sin, only that he or she became ritually impure to offer sacrifice, but the same concept applied to the sojourner. There isn't a clear restriction for an Israelite to eat this type of meat until year 40 of their sojourn, but now going into the land, they needed to understand charity for people living among them, even if those people did contract ritual impurity temporarily. Ritual impurity is NOT sinful.
Later in Deuteronomy 29 and 31, we see that the sojourner who is in the Israelite community is taking upon themselves a covenant to Hashem and even their children. These sojourners are becoming His people too and covenant members."
