because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

You must live in temporary shelters ¹  for seven days; every native citizen in Israel must live in temporary shelters,

He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; ¹  he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.

When they were few in number, just a very few, and foreign residents within it,

When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident aliens within it,

You may have the Sabbath produce ¹  of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, ² 

“‘If your brother ¹  becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, ²  you must support ³  him; he must live ⁴  with you like a foreign resident. ⁵ 

“‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers ¹  and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that ²  he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member ³  of a foreigner’s family,

But he has no root in himself and does not endure; ¹  when ²  trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here ¹  in reverence.

that the elation of the wicked is brief, ¹  the joy of the godless ²  lasts but a moment. ³ 

But ¹  no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler ²  –

I am like a foreigner in this land. ¹  Do not hide your commands from me!

The light ¹  of the righteous shines brightly, ²  but the lamp ³  of the wicked goes out. ⁴ 

Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev ¹  region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident ²  in Gerar,

“I am a temporary settler ¹  among you. Grant ²  me ownership ³  of a burial site among you so that I may ⁴  bury my dead.” ⁵ 

I also established my covenant with them ¹  to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners. ² 

But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, ¹  he hardened ²  his heart and did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted. ³ 

“You must not oppress ¹  a foreigner, since you know the life ²  of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.