DEUT1215 On [this] verse: Because they (Ammon and Moab) met you not with bread and water…," Vayikra Rabba (34) comments: "Did Israel need their favors? Did not manna come down, water gush fourth, the quail fly, the cloud of glory surround them and the pillar of cloud travel ahead of them during all the forty years?--But this is common courtesy: When a wayfarer passes by, he should be greeted with food and drink. How did God repay them their deserts? He forbade an Ammonite or a Moabite to enter God's community" (i.e. no male descended paternally from an Ammonite or Moabite proselyte may marry a woman of legitimate Jewish dissent -- Tr.). Here we may infer from the lighter to the graver case (Kal vachomer) that if one who refused to be kind to a person who did not need his favor was repaid with such severity, how much more so will a person be punished if he failed to extend kindness to a person who did need his favor! (Continued at [[EXOD162]] Exodus 12:38 mixed AHAVCH 106).