All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women. ¹ 

Make then my pledge ¹  with you. Who else will put up security for me? ² 

“He has put my relatives ¹  far from me; my acquaintances only ²  turn away from me.

When they hear of my exploits, they submit to me. ¹  Foreigners are powerless ²  before me;

If we had rejected our God, ¹  and spread out our hands in prayer to another god, ² 

There must be ¹  no other ²  god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.

May the creditor seize ¹  all he owns! May strangers loot his property! ² 

to deliver you ¹  from the adulteress, ²  from the sexually loose woman ³  who speaks flattering ⁴  words; ⁵ 

But why should you be captivated, ¹  my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman? ² 

so that they may keep you ¹  from the adulterous ²  woman, from the loose woman ³  who flatters you ⁴  with her words. ⁵ 

Let another ¹  praise you, and not your own mouth; ²  someone else, ³  and not your own lips.

You will die the death of the uncircumcised ¹  by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown ¹  to them!

Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted ¹  the money paid for us! ² 

When she bore ¹  a son, Moses ²  named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.” ³ 

and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (for Moses ¹  had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”),

He sent young Israelite men, ¹  and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings ²  to the Lord.

The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two sons when they approached the presence of the Lord ¹  and died,

“You must take choice wheat flour ¹  and bake twelve loaves; ²  there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in ³  each loaf,

You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite ¹  owes you, you must remit.