The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:21

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(Cf. Le Deuteronomy 17:15; Exodus 23:19; Exodus 34:26.) The stranger that is in thy gates. "The uncircumcised stranger that is in thy cities ' (Targum), i.e. "a heathen who takes upon him that he will serve no idol, with the residue of the commandments which were commanded to the sons of Noah, but is not circumcised nor baptized (Maimonides, 'Issure Biah,' Deuteronomy 14:1-29.

§ 7)" (Ainsworth). Alien; a foreigner, one not resident in the land of Israel.

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