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,

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,

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

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

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

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 

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

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.

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

who justly treats ¹  the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

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

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

“‘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,

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.

Uriah replied to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord’s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations ¹  with my wife? As surely as you are alive, ²  I will not do this thing!”

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain ¹  that your descendants will be strangers ²  in a foreign country. ³  They will be enslaved and oppressed ⁴  for four hundred years.