EXOD651 The Midrash Tanchuma, Lech Lecha 6 tells us that God favors the strangers over all other human beings. The Talmud Bava Metzia 58b states that he who makes the stranger suffer, either verbally, physically or financially, violates either three or five separate sins. Nachmanides (commentary on this verse) comments that Jews should never think that they can discriminate against a stranger and get away with it. God specifically repeats that He will watch over the stranger and the other downtrodden to ensure that Jews do not demonstrate prejudice. Maimonides Hilchot Melachim 10:12 states that non-Jews living in a Jewish society must be given the same basic rights as Jews have.