Take a man’s ¹  garment ²  when he has given security for a stranger, ³  and when he gives surety for strangers, ⁴  hold him ⁵  in pledge.

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

When ¹  did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or naked and clothe you?

They will never follow a stranger, ¹  but will run away from him, because they do not recognize ²  the stranger’s voice.” ³ 

Take a man’s ¹  garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for a stranger, ²  hold him in pledge. ³ 

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

The heart knows its own bitterness, ¹  and with its joy no one else ²  can share. ³ 

“‘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,

My child, ²  if you have made a pledge ³  for your neighbor, and ⁴  have become a guarantor ⁵  for a stranger, ⁶ 

The one who puts up security for a stranger ¹  will surely have trouble, ²  but whoever avoids ³  shaking hands ⁴  will be secure.

“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.

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’

They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless. ¹ 

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!

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

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

The same law will apply ¹  to the person who is native-born and to the foreigner who lives among you.”

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