My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner. ¹ 

for the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have remained there as resident foreigners until the present time.) ¹ 

My guests ¹  and my servant girls consider ²  me a stranger; I am a foreigner ³  in their eyes.

Our inheritance ¹  is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. ² 

One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”

to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them. ¹ 

“You must not wrong ¹  a foreigner ²  nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

lest strangers devour ¹  your strength, ²  and your labor ³  benefit ⁴  another man’s house.

“‘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,

“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.

One statute must apply ¹  to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent ²  statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike ³  before the Lord.

They are darkened in their understanding, ¹  being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your ¹  minds ²  as expressed through ³  your evil deeds,

David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple.

So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

When a foreigner resides ¹  with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

¹ “Foreigners will take care of ²  your sheep; foreigners will work in your fields and vineyards.