'Foreigner' in the Bible
When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, "I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land."
For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, for whoever eats what is made with yeast -- that person will be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a foreigner or one born in the land.
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner may eat it.
A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate; he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.
The same law will apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (for Moses had said, "I have been a foreigner in a foreign land"),
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates.
"You must not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
You must not oppress a foreign resident; you yourselves know how it feels to be a foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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- Alien (124 instances)
- Foreign (157 instances)
- Foreigner (140 instances)
- Outsider (15 instances)
- Strange (251 instances)
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- Abuse Of Authority, Warnings Against
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- Aliens, Believers Duty
- Attitudes Towards Foreigners
- Avoiding Foreigners
- Cruelty, God's attitude to
- Exiled Foreigners
- Foreigners
- Foreigners In The Holy Places
- Foreigners Included Among The People
- Foreigners Included In The Law
- Foreigners Permitted At The Feasts